The historic trial of the November 13 attacks, scheduled to last nine months, opened yesterday in Paris.
Twenty defendants, including Salah Abdeslam, the only survivor of the Islamist commandos guided by Daesh who had killed 130 and injured more than 350, in 2015, in Paris and Saint-Denis, are on trial.
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What will be the attitude of Salah Abdeslam? The behavior of the main accused, very vindictive yesterday, will be followed with attention today before the special assize court in Paris, during the second day of the trial of the November 13 attacks. The hearing of this Thursday must like that of the day before be devoted only to the appeal of the civil parties, but the court is not immune from a new shine on the part of the one towards whom all eyes will be still turned.
At the opening of this “historic” and “extraordinary” trial, Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving member of the commandos which left 130 dead and hundreds wounded in Paris and Saint-Denis on November 13, 2015, affirmed that ‘he had “abandoned any profession to become a fighter for the Islamic State”. The 31-year-old Franco-Moroccan, who had been rather silent since his arrest in Belgium in March 2016, did not hesitate to speak … even when he was not invited.
The brief discomfort of one of his co-defendants – a total of 20 people are tried for nine months – was the opportunity for Salah Abdeslam to launch a retribution against the French justice. Standing, the mask removed, raising the tone and the index pointing towards the court composed only of professional magistrates, he launched that the defendants are “treated like dogs”.
