Silent for once, Salah Abdeslam watches his brother, Brahim, blow himself up

(Radio France) On Monday, at the start of the third week of the Paris November 2015 terror trial, two police experts described the scenes at La Belle Équipe bar, where 21 people died in a hail of bullets, and at the Comptoir Voltaire, where suicide bomber Brahim Abdeslam killed himself, injuring a dozen people, three of them seriously.

This was Salah Abdeslam’s most remarkable performance so far.

Those attending the Paris attacks trial have become accustomed to Abdeslam’s interruptions, his insistence that the Paris murder squads, of which he is the sole surviving member, were justifiably motivated by a desire to avenge the families of Islamic State fighters killed by French air force jets in Syria.

He did it again on Monday.

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