The convoy allegedly carrying Salah Abdeslam, the main suspect in the November 2015 Paris attacks, arrived on Wednesday at the Paris courthouse, where the verdict of a trial on the attacks is due to be announced.
Judges will deliver the verdict on Wednesday in the trial of France’s worst peacetime attack, which killed 130 people in a coordinated arms-and-bomb ploy by gunmen in Paris.
The Bataclan auditorium, six bars, restaurants and the perimeter of the Stade de France sports stadium were targets of attacks that lasted hours, shook France and left deep scars on the country’s psyche.
This is a trial like no other, not only for its exceptional duration of 10 months, but also for the time it took to allow victims to testify in detail about what they went through and their struggles to overcome it, as the families of the dead spoke. how difficult it was to move on.
Abdeslam faces life in prison without parole, a sentence handed down just four times in France so far, he started the trial proudly saying he was a “soldier” of the Islamic State, which claimed responsibility for the attacks.
But later he apologized to the victims.
Abdeslam is the only survivor of the group suspected of carrying out the attacks. But he says he chose not to detonate his explosive vest and on Monday asked the court not to hand him a harsh sentence.
The verdict and sentence are expected from noon (BrasÃlia time), but could also come later in the evening. The decision can be challenged on appeal.
Source: CNN Brasil
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