The cost of detaining Salah Abdeslam, one of the terrorists directly linked to the November 13 attacks in Paris, is ten times that of a standard detainee.

An amount which is explained in particular by the exceptional conditions of surveillance to which he is subject, while his trial is due to begin on September 8.

The detention under close surveillance of Salah Abdeslam, one of the future defendants in the trial of the November 13 attacks, directly involved in the attacks, costs no less than 433,000 euros per year.

According to this information transmitted by the Ministry of Justice and published in the Official Journal after a question from a deputy, this amount would make him the most expensive prisoner in France. 

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Exceptional surveillance conditions

If we reduce this figure to a daily amount, the incarceration of Salah Abdeslam does not cost less than 1,200 euros per day.

A figure more than ten times the cost of a standard prisoner.

But if this sum calls out, it is explained not by privileged conditions of detention - its costs of food, linen and heating are in line with those of any detainee, that is to say 97 euros per day - but well by the exceptional surveillance conditions allocated to it. 

Starting with the salaries of staff, since no less than eight prison officers take turns 24 hours a day to ensure his guard, in addition to the video surveillance system installed in his cell.

"The price to pay for exemplary justice"

The stake is indeed to be able to take this particular detainee to a trial awaited by more than 1,200 victims as civil parties.

And that's what Arthur Denouveaux, president of the Life for Paris association, retains. 

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"This is obviously a significant sum, but it is not an excessive sum compared to the stakes. I remind you that the courtroom which has just been built cost 7.5 million euros and that Basically, the economic damage created by the 2015 attacks is even more enormous. I believe that we had lost 1.5 million tourists. And what should not be forgotten is that we want a exemplary justice, a justice of which France can be proud and that is probably the price to pay ".

The trial is expected to last at least eight months, starting on September 8.