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End of the November 13 trial: how far can justice go?

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Journalists wait before the announcement of the verdict of the November 13 trial, June 29, 2022. © REUTERS / Benoit Tessier

By: Romain Auzouy

1 min

It was 8:10 p.m. in Paris last night (June 29, 2022) when the reading of the verdict of the trial of the attacks of November 13, 2015 in France began in the specially composed Court of Assizes, marking the epilogue of an extraordinary trial which will have lasted nine months.

The most anticipated sentence was pronounced against Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving member of the commando, who was sentenced to incompressible life imprisonment, an extremely rare sanction pronounced until then only four times.

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With

- Philippe Duperron, president of the

and father of Thomas, who died at the Bataclan

- Sharon Weill

, lecturer in International Law at the

, associate researcher at CERI,

- Maître Pierre Henry Bovis

, criminal lawyer at the Paris Bar.

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