PARIS — A Paris court on Friday sentenced a French-Algerian particle physicist to five years in prison, one of them suspended, on the charge of “criminal association with the intent to prepare terrorist acts,” ruling that the man’s online correspondence in 2009 with a presumed member of Al Qaeda constituted a criminal act.
The scientist, Adlène Hicheur, 35, did not deny the exchange of messages, in which he suggested targets for [...]
