November 13: Salah Abdeslam persists in parasitizing the trial by his untimely interventions

Salah Abdeslam has again interrupted the hearing of the November 13 trial this Thursday, September 9, 2021. AP - Noelle Herrenschmidt

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On the second day of the hearing of the November 13 attacks, this Thursday, the long list of appeal of the civil parties continued and the main defendant, Salah Abdeslam, once again took the floor without being invited to try to exonerate some of his co-accused.

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For long hours, the lawyers of the civil parties brought before the court the 1,765 names of the victims and their relatives, constituted civil parties.

An enumeration that came to disturb Salah Abdeslam.

While a point of law is raised on the possibility of having new victims testify, the main defendant, white T-shirt, black beard protruding from the mask, gets up and calls out to the president of the court: " 

And the victims in Syria, Iraq, will they be able to speak?

 He says. 

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Salah Abdeslam then continues his disconnected point and talks about his friends in Molenbeek, Belgium, where he grew up.

Among them, three are in the box with him.

“In Molenbeek, people are generous.

Among them are Mohamed Amri, Ali Oulkadi and Hamza Attou.

They didn't know anything at all, ”says Abdeslam in an attempt to exonerate them.

The three men are suspected of having helped him leave France the day after the attacks. 

The president then quickly reframes the debates: “ 

You have had five years to explain yourself, you have not done so.

Today you want to express yourself, that's fine, but it's not the right time

 ”and he cuts Salah Abdeslam's microphone.

Civil parties shocked

This behavior particularly shocks the victims and their families.

Why do you want him

(Abdeslam)

to deprive himself of this platform?"

He's a Daesh fighter.

But it offends the victims, it is shocking the impact of these remarks on the victims

 ”, reacted on the sidelines of the hearing Samia Maktouf, lawyer of 40 civil parties.

This Friday, each of the accused will hear what he is accused of.

Facts that can be added to each other to form a long, sometimes very long list of accusations.

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