(ANSA) – PARIS, JUN 27 – Fourteen defendants in the trial of the attacks of 13 November 2015 between the Stade de France, the Bataclan and the premises of the center of Paris have one last opportunity to express themselves today before the judges of the special assize court before the verdict expected on Wednesday.
The last hearing in the maxi-trial that began in September in the bunker room of the Ile-de-la-Cité, in the heart of the French capital, began today at 9:30 am.
As required by law, each accused is called to speak by President Jean-Louis Périès. After having remained silent for a long time, Salah Abdeslam – the only surviving member of the terrorist commandos that killed 130 people that night, including the Venetian researcher Valeria Solesin – began to speak. The 32-year-old Frenchman was very ambivalent, oscillating between the arrogance of the beginning of the trial, when he proclaimed himself a “fighter of the Islamic State ” (Isis) on the first day of the hearing, to when, instead, at the end of the hearings, he presented “condolences and apologies to all the victims.” Abdeslam defended himself by assuring that he had given up using his explosive belt in a bar in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, on the slopes of Montmartre, for “humanity” Unconvinced by this “equilibrium number” of Abdeslam, who systematically tried to “minimize the facts”, the anti-terrorism prosecutor (PNAT) asked him for life imprisonment without the possibility of recourse. French system: verdict on Wednesday.
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Source: Ansa
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