The word is with the defense, it is even for her the last chance to convince.

The lawyers of Salah Abdeslam and his thirteen co-accused present before the special assize court of Paris begin to plead this Monday and for two weeks at the trial of the attacks of November 13.

For the lawyers of the fourteen defendants appearing before the court - six others, including five senior executives of the jihadist group Islamic State presumed dead in Syria, are tried in their absence - it is time to respond to the arguments of the prosecution.

Olivia Ronen and Martin Vettes, lawyers for the only surviving member of the commandos, Salah Abdeslam, will plead last, on June 24.

The incompressible life imprisonment required against Abdeslam

The hearing will resume at 12:30 p.m.

It ended Friday afternoon with the sentences demanded against the twenty men tried for nine months for their participation in the attacks which left 130 dead in Paris and Saint-Denis.

After three days of a three-vote indictment, the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office (Pnat) requested against Salah Abdeslam the heaviest sanction provided for by the Penal Code: incompressible life imprisonment.

This extremely rare sentence, pronounced only four times, makes the possibility of a sentence adjustment very small.

The irreducible life sentence was also requested against Osama Atar, "mastermind" of the attacks led by the Islamic State from Syria, presumed dead in 2017. Against the "accomplices", all members of the same jihadist cell whose commandos were " interchangeable", the Pnat also demanded perpetuity, asking that the security period be modeled according to their degree of involvement.

Thirty years of security were thus claimed against the Swede Osama Krayem and the Tunisian Sofien Ayari.

The Pnat requested life imprisonment with 22 years of security against two key men, the "logistician" Mohamed Bakkali and Mohamed Abrini, "the man in the hat" of the Brussels attacks who was also "planned" in Paris but who renounced.

The defense of the latter will plead on June 23.

The verdict expected on June 29

Penalties ranging from five years' imprisonment to sixteen years' imprisonment have also been requested against several defendants involved to varying degrees in the assistance provided to the cell.

Lawyers Marie Dosé and Judith Lévy will be the first to stand up on Monday in defense of one of them, Ali Oulkadi, tried for having helped Salah Abdeslam at the start of his run and not having denounced him.

The Pnat requested the lowest sentence (5 years) against him.

Later in the day, the floor will be given to the lawyers of Hamza Attou, tried for having traveled from Brussels with his co-defendant Mohammed Amri (his defense will plead on Tuesday) on the night of November 13 to 14, to pick up Salah Abdeslam in Paris .

The defendants will speak last on Monday, June 27, before the court retires to deliberate.

The verdict is expected on June 29.

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