Attacks of November 13: why the trial also interests the Belgians?
Salah Abdeslam, one of the suspects of the attacks of November 13, 2015 in Paris, was able to cross the border to Belgium on November 14.
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The trial of the attacks of November 13, 2015, which begins on Wednesday September 8, 2021, will be closely followed by Belgium.
The country was hit by deadly attacks a few months later, on March 22, 2016. On the dock in the Paris trial, we find the perpetrators of the attacks in Belgium.
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With our correspondent in Brussels,
Laxmi Lota
They are six in total: six defendants out of the twenty at the Paris trial who will also be tried for the Brussels attacks in a year.
"The man in the hat"
Among them, the Belgian-Moroccan Mohammed Abrini, suspected of having participated in the financing of the November 13 commandos and of having armed and accompanied its members.
In Brussels, he is nicknamed "the man in the hat": CCTV images show him at Zaventem airport.
He ultimately did not blow himself up.
Another accused in both cases, Salah Abdeslam, the only attacker still alive among the terrorists in Paris.
He risks life imprisonment for the attacks in Brussels.
Among the hundred witnesses cited during this historic trial, there will be Belgian investigators.
The investigation uncovered a Franco-Belgian jihadist cell.
The families of the victims of the attacks of March 22, 2016 are also awaiting answers during the Paris trial.
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