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Among the persons for whom the prosecution requests a trial figure, the Franco-Belgian Salah Abdeslam, only member still alive of the commandos of 13-November 2015. Didier LEBRUN / POOL / AFP

After a sprawling investigation into the attacks of 13-November 2015 in Paris and Saint-Denis, completed on October 21, the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office announced Friday, November 29 that a lawsuit was requested for 20 people, including Salah Abdeslam, the only member still alive commandos who made 131 dead and more than 400 wounded.

The prosecution demands that Salah Abdeslam , who has been detained in France for more than three and a half years, be tried in particular for murder, attempted murder and kidnapping, in an organized gang and in connection with a terrorist enterprise. The 27 prosecutors also want to be tried Osama Atar , a Belgian suspected of planning the attacks of 13-November 2015 from Syria.

This jihad veteran, identified as the "Abu Ahmed" war, has never been arrested. According to the intelligence services, he is probably dead. The procurements of the prosecutor's office also target several suspected members of the Franco-Belgian terrorist cell responsible for the attacks committed in Paris and Saint-Denis but also responsible for them perpetrated on 22 March 2016 at the airport and in the Brussels metro . They are Sofien Ayari, Osama Krayem, Mohamed Abrini and Mohamed Bakkali.

In this case, a total of 14 suspects are in the hands of the French and Belgian judicial authorities. Eleven of them are placed in pre-trial detention and three under judicial control. Six people are subject to an arrest warrant. The final decision on the contours of this extraordinary trial, which should be held in 2021 in Paris, is now up to the five anti-terrorism investigating judges who investigated these attacks, the deadliest of the wave of jihadist attacks in France.