Europe 1 with AFP 6:32 p.m., February 09, 2022

Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving member of the November 13 commandos, said Wednesday at the trial of these attacks that he had given up on setting off his explosive belt on the evening of the attacks that left 130 dead in Paris and Saint-Denis.

Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving member of the November 13 commandos, said Wednesday at the trial of these attacks that he had given up on setting off his explosive belt on the evening of the attacks that left 130 dead in Paris and Saint-Denis.

"Should I have gone all the way?"

"The people who did not kill anyone, we cannot condemn them as if we had the heads of the Islamic State, it is not possible", he declared, "in reality, we say to ourselves 'I should have started this thing' (..), you say to yourself 'did I do the right thing to go back or should I have gone all the way'?"