Gwladys Laffitte, with Thibaud Le Meneec 9:11 p.m., September 8, 2021

At the opening of the trial for the November 13 attacks on Wednesday, Salah Abdeslam said the accused were "treated like dogs". Words that do not really surprise Dominique Kielemoes, mother of a young man killed by terrorists on a terrace and representative of an association of victims.

The survivors and the families of the victims had been waiting for this moment for six years, in a mixture of impatience and apprehension at the time of reliving that night of November 13, 2015. Wednesday, the trial of the terrorist attacks in Paris in November 2015 s 'is open at the courthouse in the capital.

And during this first day, Salah Abdeslam provoked the assistance by denouncing his conditions of imprisonment and reaffirming himself "fighter of the Islamic State", which wounds Dominique Kielemoes, mother of Victor Munoz, killed at the café La Belle Équipe .

"Not much to expect" from Abdeslam

The one who is also the vice-president of 13onze15, an association of victims, said she was shocked by the first words of Salah Abdeslam in court.

"As the mother of a young 24-year-old boy murdered at La Belle Équipe, Victor, obviously it hurts me", she confides at the end of the hearing.

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"As association vice-president, because I have two hats here, we expected no more," she continues, more coldly.

"He's a murderer and we would like him to admit his crime. But he won't and we don't want to be indebted to him. And then, we have so much contempt for him that in the end, it doesn't touch us so much. only that."

For Dominique Kielemoes, "there is not much to expect" from Salah Abdeslam or the thirteen other defendants present at the courthouse on Wednesday.

"Belgium could perhaps have reacted a little better"

This nine-month long trial should shed light on the possible failures of the intelligence services before November 13, 2015. The representative of the victims' association believes that the Belgian services have not been able to avoid the dramas de Paris: "What also hurts is when we see the list of people who are in the box, we say to ourselves that all the same, Belgium could have perhaps reacted a little better, a little more faster and a little louder. "

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