(Radio France) At the special criminal court in Paris where 20 men are being tried for their alleged involvement in the November 2015 terrorist killings, Tuesday’s hearing featured the resumption of Belgian police evidence from Brussels. The careers of two of the accused … Mohamed Bakkali and Salah Abdeslam … were presented in detail.
Late in Tuesday’s proceedings, Salah Abdeslam’s chief defence lawyer, Olivia Ronen, earned herself an angry rebuke from the tribunal president, Jean-Louis Périès.
In the course of a long series of unclear questions, delivered in a bizarre style of ironic humour, Ronen antagonised the police witness, otherwise pedestrian but cooperative, to the point where he pointedly reorganised his papers while she meandered through her criticism of himself and his Belgian police colleagues.
