Epilogue of a sprawling survey before a trial that promises to be out of the ordinary. The National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office (PNAT) announced Friday, November 29, having requested a trial of assizes against 20 people for the attacks of November 13, 2015 in Paris and Saint-Denis. Among the people for whom the prosecution is seeking a trial is Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving member of the commandos who left 130 dead.

After four years of international investigations, these requisitions of 562 pages were signed on November 21 and sent Thursday to more than 1,740 civil parties, said the PNAT in a statement.

The final decision on the contours of this trial, scheduled for 2021 in Paris, now goes to the anti-terrorist investigating judges charged with the investigation of these attacks, the deadliest of the wave of jihadist attacks in France.

The national antiterrorist prosecutor's office wants to see the emir of the Islamic State Osama Atar, a Belgian suspected of having planned the attacks from Syria, to be judged for "leading a terrorist organization". This jihad veteran, identified as the war of "Abu Ahmed", was never questioned. He is considered dead by intelligence services.

The dismissal of Salah Abdeslam and several members of the French-Belgian jihadist cell required

The prosecution demands that Salah Abdeslam, detained in France for more than three and a half years, be judged in particular for "murders, attempts of murder and kidnapping, in organized gang and in relation with a terrorist enterprise".

The prosecution also requested the removal, for complicity in these crimes, of several suspected members of the Franco-Belgian jihadist cell, also behind the attacks of 22 March 2016 in Brussels: Sofien Ayari, Osama Krayem, Mohamed Abrini, Mohamed Bakkali.

In this case, fourteen suspects in total are in the hands of the French justice system or its Belgian counterpart, eleven of whom are placed in pre-trial detention and three under judicial supervision, recalled the PNAT. Six suspects are also subject to an arrest warrant.

On November 13, 2015, three commandos of nine men attacked the capital at several points, restaurant terraces and the Bataclan concert hall, as well as the area around the Stade de France in Saint-Denis.

The investigations revealed a much larger jihadist cell behind these attacks, claimed by the Islamic State organization, with ramifications throughout Europe, mainly in Belgium. On March 22, 2016, she also knocked on the airport and on the Brussels Metro, killing 32 people.

With AFP