Paris attacks terrorist Salah Abdeslam and the ‘banality of evil’

(Radio France) On Thursday, the Paris special criminal court continued the psychiatric profiling of the 14 men being tried on suspicion of various levels of involvement in the November 2015 terrorist killings in the French capital. The spotlight fell, once again, on Salah Abdeslam, the sole surviving attacker. He’s not mad.

Osama Krayem made a rare appearance in the prisoners’ box, only to hear himself described as “uncommunicative” and “evasive.”

Krayem, who is accused of planning an attack at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport on the day of the Paris massacres, speaks Arabic and Swedish, and has only rudimentary French.

He has been boycotting this trial since November. He shows no signs of mental illness.

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