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“To begin with, I would like to address the victims: do not believe everything you have been told in the media. I had empathy for you, I questioned myself,” assured the thirty-year-old.
“I participated on November 13, in (the shooting on rue du) Dries, I said what I did and what I did not do. Here, I told you that you do not You’re not my victims, I was perhaps clumsy”, he then justified. “But I did not participate in March 22, I did not know the project. It was said that Belkaid and Ayari had nothing to do with March 22 but that Abdeslam did. I am undergoing legal harassment.”
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“I do not agree with your verdict (on guilt, Editor’s note). Should I blame you? The question arises”, continued Salah Abdeslam, addressing the jury. “But you are not professional magistrates, to err is human and I am Salah Abdeslam. (…) You condemned someone who did not deserve it. What I would like is for us to judges me like the others. I ask you to be fair in this last decision.”
And the man concludes for the victims. “I don’t know how I might console you, help you. I don’t have the words for you. I still hope that what I said will help you a little in your reconstruction process.”
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