In France, justice pronounces its judgment on Wednesday against Salah Abdeslam and his co-accused, tried for ten months for the attacks of November 13, 2015 in Paris, the worst ever committed in France.
After 10 months of hearing, it’s time for the verdict. At the November 13 trial, the Court is due to deliver its long-awaited decision on Wednesday evening on the fate of Salah Abdeslam and his co-accused, tried since September for the worst attacks ever committed in France. The reading of the deliberations could begin at the end of the afternoon.
On Monday, French justice gave the floor one last time to the 14 accused present – six others, including five presumed dead, are being tried in their absence.
“I am not an assassin, I am not a killer”, argued from the box the main of them, Salah Abdeslam, reiterating his “sincere” apologies to the victims. “If you condemn me for assassinations, you will commit an injustice”, still struck the only member still alive of the commandos having made 130 dead in Paris and Saint-Denis.
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Life imprisonment required
The prosecution requested against him the heaviest penalty provided for by the penal code: life imprisonment, without any possibility of release.
The sentences requested against the 20 defendants range from five years’ imprisonment to life, in particular required for the “accomplices” of the attacks, all members of the same jihadist cell.
The irreducible life sentence was also requested against Osama Atar, “senior terror executive” of the Islamic State group and sponsor of the attacks, presumed dead in Syria.
>> Review the report of 7:30 p.m. which returned to the statements of Salah Abdeslam:
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