Attacks of November 13: the convicted do not appeal, the trial is over
The defendants at the trial of the November 13 attacks, on the last day of defense pleadings, in a sketch from June 27, 2022. © Benoit Peyrucq / AFP
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After ten months of proceedings, the trial of the attacks of November 13 officially ended on Tuesday July 12, none of the accused having appealed.
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Salah Abdeslam, sentenced to incompressible life imprisonment for his role in the attacks of November 13, 2015 in France, has not appealed his sentence, Paris Attorney General Remy Heitz told AFP on Tuesday.
“
None of the twenty defendants appealed
,” said Rémy Heitz.
"
The national anti-terrorism prosecutor and the general prosecutor at the Paris Court of Appeal have not appealed this decision either
," he said in a statement.
The decision of the special assize court of Paris “
has therefore acquired a final character today and there will therefore be no appeal trial
”.
► See also: What to remember from the trial of the November 13 attacks
Incompressible perpetuity
The ten-day appeal period expired Monday at midnight.
On June 29, and after nearly ten months of a "
historic
" trial, Salah Abdeslam had become the fifth man in France sentenced to
life imprisonment
, the highest penalty in the criminal code which makes any possibility of rehabilitation minimal. freedom.
His 19 co-accused – six of whom five were presumed dead were tried in their absence – were sentenced to terms ranging from two years to life imprisonment.
"
Slow Death Penalty
"
During the trial
, the only surviving member of the jihadist commandos who left 130 dead and hundreds injured in Paris and the nearby town of Saint-Denis, claimed to have "
given up
" on triggering his belt in a Parisian bar on the evening of the attacks, out of "
humanity
".
The explosive vest which Salah Abdeslam was carrying "
was not functional
", calling "
seriously into question
" his statements on his "
renunciation
", replied the court in its deliberation.
She found the 32-year-old Frenchman guilty of being the "
co
-perpetrator " of a "
single crime scene
“: the Stade de France, the machine-gunned Parisian terraces and the Bataclan concert hall.
The defense of the main defendant had unsuccessfully pleaded against a "
slow death penalty
" aimed at "
definitively neutralizing an enemy
" and not a man who had "
evolved
" during the hearing.
Contacted by AFP, Salah Abdeslam's lawyers had not yet reacted on Tuesday morning.
(
With
AFP)
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