The main accused in the trial of the November 13 attacks, Salah Abdeslam, is "able" to attend the hearings of the special assize court from Tuesday, concluded Monday a medical second opinion report requested by President Jean -Louis Périès.
Salah Abdeslam "is currently cured" of Covid-19 and "since January 3, 2022, in application of the most recent recommendations in force, he is medically and health-able to attend hearings of the Assize Court", concluded the report consulted by AFP.
Strict compliance with barrier measures
Suspended for two weeks, the trial should have resumed on January 6 but had been postponed the time to submit the main accused, Salah Abdeslam, still positive for Covid-19, to a medical second opinion.
According to the two experts who sign the report, an infectious disease specialist and a pulmonologist, Salah Abdeslam presented with a Covid infection on December 24, 2021. He had tested positive three days later.
"He is currently cured of this infection, with only a residual moderate asthenia and an intermittent dry cough, very likely moreover multifactorial (allergic origin, gastroesophageal reflux)", they detail.
"In view of the infectious disease of which he was the carrier, no medical measure should be taken apart from symptomatic treatment, treatment which has been prescribed to him", add the two experts.
"Strict compliance with the barrier measures is imposed on him when the hearings resume, but regardless of the infection he presented", they underline.
"The persistence of a positive PCR more than 10 days after the onset of symptoms in an immunocompetent patient, vaccinated or not and having presented a little or moderately symptomatic form of infection with SARS-CoV-2, does not correspond to an excretion viable virus and is therefore not associated with contagiousness, ”they insisted.
The creation of a "cluster"
The supposed contagiousness of Salah Abdeslam was at the heart of the debates last Thursday.
Certain lawyers, including on the benches of the civil parties, had expressed the fear of creation of a "cluster" within the Assize Court, without window, where the defendants are seated at less than one meter from each other. others.
Salah Abdeslam, who refused to be vaccinated "for personal reasons", tested positive for Covid-19 on December 27, while the trial was suspended.
At the end of nearly four months of hearing, the trial must enter a new phase, that of the interrogation on the merits of the file of the 14 defendants present (six others, including five presumed dead, are tried in their absence).
On Tuesday, the first to be questioned by the court will be Mohamed Abrini, childhood friend of Salah Abdeslam.
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Trial of the November 13 attacks: The Covid-19 interferes with the hearing, the debates suspended until January 11
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Terrorist attacks in Paris
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