(AFP) The main defendant in France’s marathon trial for the November 2015 Paris attacks was back in the dock Tuesday, as the questioning of suspects resumed following a weeks-long Covid delay.
Salah Abdeslam is the only survivor among the 10 assailants who killed 130 people on November 13, 2015, and is charged with murders committed as part of a terrorist organisation.
After four months of proceedings, the trial — the biggest in modern French history — has now entered a new phase in which the 14 suspects present are to be questioned.
Hearings scheduled for January 4 and then January 6 were postponed after Abdeslam tested positive for Covid at the end of December.
Abdeslam, who has largely refused to answer questions from investigators since his arrest in Belgium in March 2016, is scheduled to be questioned on January 20-21.
