(Radio France) Salah Abdeslam is the sole surviving member of the terrorist group that attacked venues in or near Paris on 13 November 2015. On Friday his defence team, Martin Vettes and Olivia Ronen, will attempt to save him from spending the rest of his life behind bars.
They don’t have an easy job. Abdeslam has been a handful for Vettes and Ronen.
Their client has been both silently and noisily provocative, he has played the unrepentant Islamic State hard man and the weeping victim of circumstance.
Abdeslam has justified terrorism as legitimate defence, and has claimed that he pulled back from being the agent of violent death because of his humanity. Not everyone has been convinced.
