(Radio France) The past week of the Paris attacks trial has been devoted to an examination of the family backgrounds and personalities of the men accused of involvement in the 2015 massacres which cost 131 people their lives.
There have been surprises.
Salah Abdeslam, who remained silent through six years of imprisonment and his trial in Belgium for the attempted murder of a policeman, who has been aggressive and uncooperative, was suddenly transformed.
Unlike the black-clad unrepentant “soldier of Allah” of the opening of this trial, Abdeslam answered questions politely and seriously. He could not have been nicer.
“He’s a total cringing coward,” said one civil witness, a man who went to help the injured on the terrace of the Belle Équipe bar.
