(Brussels Times) Salah Abdeslam insisted on Monday that he was unfairly tried and a victim of the media during his final remarks to the court in charge of trying the men accused of the 22 March 2016 terror attacks in Brussels.
Abdeslam, recognised as a co-author of the attacks, said in his remarks to the Brussels Assise Court that he had been unaware of what was being prepared and claimed that it was the media coverage of his trial that had led the jury to find him guilty.
“To begin with, I would like to address the victims: do not believe everything you’ve been told in the media,” said the defendant, now aged 34. “Me, I had empathy for you, I thought about you, I questioned myself.”
