In July 2015 , months before the Paris terror attacks , two men named Zakaria Boufassil and Mohammed Ali Ahmed met with one of the main suspects in the attacks , Mohamed Abrini , in a park in Birmingham , United Kingdom . They gave him £ 3,000 out of a bank account that was set up by another man who traveled to Syria to join ISIL . It was found that most of the money came from housing benefits . In December 2016 , both men were found guilty for preparing acts of terrorism
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