(Radio France) Tuesday’s session at the special criminal court in Paris ended abruptly when the fifty lawyers defending those accused of complicity in the November 2015 terrorist attacks left the courtroom en masse. They were protesting against “an atmosphere unfavourable to their clients’ interests.” The walk-out brought a premature end to a day marked by further unsatisfactory evidence from the sole surviving attacker, Salah Abdeslam.
Abdeslam is an infuriating individual.
He clearly enjoys his time at the centre of attention. His personal contradictions, however, leave little space for a coherent presentation of the facts.
On Tuesday, the sole survivor of the group which killed 130 people in Paris on the night of 13 November 2015 provided no new information. Instead, he proposed a toxic mixture of verbal aggression, attempted charm, rudeness, self-contradiction and outright provocation.
