(Radio France) Four of the 14 men normally present in the courtroom at the Paris attacks trial in the central Paris Palais de Justice on Thursday refused to take their places in the box for the accused. Their legal teams explained that they are protesting a court decision to allow Belgian police investigators to give evidence at a distance and anonymously.
Four of the men on trial for their alleged involvement in the November 2015 Paris terrorist killings … Salah Abdeslam, Mohamed Abrini, Sofien Ayari and Osama Krayem … refused to enter the central Paris courtroom on Thursday.
The tribunal president, Jean-Louis Périès, drew the court’s attention to the absent at the opening of the hearing.
