2023-09-16 06:23:00
“He obviously welcomed this decision with a lot of emotion,” added the criminal lawyer about his client.
Justice was delivered in the trial of the attacks of March 22, 2016 in Zaventem and Maelbeek
Me Bouchat was keen to underline the quality of the judgment on the sentences, “particularly well reasoned” and which will, according to him, “mark the judicial history of Belgium”, at the end of an “exceptional” trial. . It is not common for a criminal court to have to rule on requests for deprivation of nationality, he noted.
The panel, made up of the jury and the three magistrates of the court, did not pronounce any disqualification, contrary to what the prosecution requested.
“Salah Abdeslam is a symbol. He was a trophy for the Paris Assize Court. Here, fortunately, the magistrates and the jury ensured that he was not,” praised Me Bouchat. “But he remains a symbol and that played tricks on him in the judgment on guilt. I remain convinced that the three who blew themselves up did not need Salah Abdeslam to do so.”
His two counsel thus insisted on recalling that their client should have been acquitted during the debate on guilt. They therefore did not rule out, on Friday evening, appealing to the Court of Cassation against the judgment rendered at the end of July and will now take the time to analyze it.
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