(France 24) Salah Abdeslam, the 31-year-old French-Moroccan believed to be the only surviving member of the group that carried out the November 2015 jihadist attacks in Paris, told a courtroom on Wednesday that he was a “soldier of the Islamic State group.”
Abdeslam has lost none of his rage. On the first day of the Paris attacks trial, which opened in a purpose-built courtroom in the historic Palais de Justice, the chief suspect in the jihadist rampage that killed 130 people and injured hundreds more chilled everyone in attendance.
In response to the first question to confirm his identity, Abdeslam vehemently proclaimed: “I want to testify that there is no god except Allah and that Mohammad is his servant.”
