(Radio France) Lawyers for the victims of the November 2015 terrorist attacks are continuing their concluding remarks. The Special Criminal Court is a theatre of contradiction, with the black robes offering everything from flamboyant rhetoric to dignified common sense. The 14 accused who are physically present show rare signs of attention.
Salah Abdeslam woke up at the mention of his name.
A lawyer called him a liar, saying that Abdeslam, the sole survivor of the terrorist squads whose actions cost 132 people their lives, had not renounced … his murderous mission as a suicide bomber out of human sympathy, as he has claimed, but simply because his explosive jacket did not explode.
“He told his friends that it had failed to go off,” the court was reminded. “How could he have known if he hadn’t tried?”
