On June 29, a French court sentenced 20 accused persons including Salah Abdeslam and Pakistani national Mohammad Ghani Usman for the November 13, 2015 Paris terror attacks and it emerged during the investigation that there is an India angle, reports Hindustan Times. Subahani Haja Moideen, a Tamil Nadu based Islamic State (IS) operative who was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in October 2016, trained with Mohammad Ghani Usman, a former bomb-maker of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) who later joined IS and had become his best friend during five months of training in Iraq in 2015. Moideen, 37, convicted by an Ernakulam court in September 2020 for joining IS told investigators that he met Paris bombers including Abdelhamid Abaaoud (killed during the bombing) and Salah Abdeslam on his way to Iraq. To gather more details, a team of French investigators came to Kochi (Kerala) in December 2018 to interrogate Moideen about the training and his links with the Paris attack squad of the IS. In return, a NIA team had travelled to Paris in to question Usman, who, in the past, was close to LeT leadership; Indian agencies wanted to get further information from him on 26/11 Mumbai attacks.