Trial of the November 13 attacks: the floor again to Salah Abdeslam this Wednesday
Salah Abdeslam, November 2, 2021 during the trial of the November 13 attacks in Paris.
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At the trial of the attacks of November 13, 2015, the Assize Court continues to question the accused, still on their possible radicalization and the preparation of the attacks until August 2015. Wednesday, February 9, 2022, it will be the turn of Salah Abdeslam d have the floor.
The main defendant and only living member of the commandos, who has already spoken on several occasions, has adopted a fluctuating attitude since the start of the trial.
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Claiming responsibility for the attacks on several occasions, presenting himself as an Islamic State fighter, Salah Abdeslam was provocative at the opening of the trial.
A few weeks later, he recounts his “normal” childhood in a calm tone.
Studies without history, a few thefts, in particular with Abdelhamid Abaaoud, future coordinator of the attacks.
A friendship on which Salah Abdeslam refuses to expand.
A portrait a little too smooth, to the taste of Joëlle who lost her husband at the Bataclan.
She would like Salah Abdeslam to open up: “
I would prefer that he could speak in a more personal way.
After that, we cannot prejudge in advance what he will say, and how he will want to say it.
But I'll take what there will be, I'm not particularly afraid.
»
Fatima, who was at the Bataclan, expects a lot from the testimony of the main defendant.
Probably too much, she admits: “
Yes, I would like to have his state of mind, his feeling, the why, the how.
How did he switch?
How did they come to want to kill people?
After all, they are young people like us.
»
Salah Abdeslam should probably speak.
Absent from hearings for a month and a half, he has been back in his box since mid-January.
He has also finally agreed to submit to a compulsory psychiatric examination.
The doctors conclude that he "
has engaged in totalitarian dehumanization himself
", and consider it "
extremely naïve to expect him to express feelings
", even if his shell could split.
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