“It is an opportunity to weld a collective memory around a traumatic page in our history”. The world thus presents a day that is historic and devastating for France. The trial for the terrorist attacks of November 13, 2015 in Paris, claimed by ISIS, has opened. There are 20 defendants. The only one in the courtroom is Salah Abdeslam and his statements tell how much the clash is still present. He never cooperated with the investigators and when asked his name he said that there is no god but Allah.
France and the world I relive in court on the night of Friday 13 November, that of the attacks on café terraces, the Stade de France and the Bataclan, the site of the massacre, where the Italian Valeria Solesin was also killed. 130 were killed and over 400 wounded in the bloodiest attack in France since the war.
And this is the most impressive process since the end of the Second World War. There are 1,800 civil parties among relatives of the victims, injured or survivors, 330 lawyers. Four anti-terrorism magistrates instructed the trial: 542 volumes are the result of the path that led to the courtroom in the old Île de la Cité Courthouse. It will go on for nine months with massive security measures, but also with screens in multiple rooms to watch the hearings live.
Salah Abdeslam is the only survivor of the attackers. Was arrested in Brussels in March 2016 and sentenced to 20 years in prison in Belgium for the attempted murder of some policemen. He is the only one in the classroom. There are 20 people under accusation, of which only 14 will be present: 11 are in prison and 3 are free. Another 6 will be tried in absentia. Among the accusations, terrorist criminal association and complicity. Twelve of the accused face life imprisonment, another seven twenty years in prison and one six years.
The prosecution believes that Abdeslam handled the logistics of the attacks Paris. It was he who contacted the jihadists who came from Syria, in the summer of 2015, seven of them would later take part in the attacks in Paris. He is also accused of having purchased 15 liters of a swimming pool maintenance product that allows the production of an explosive on 8 October. It would provide vehicles and hiding places. During the attacks, however, he did not blow himself up, abandoning his explosive belt.
Among the six defendants in default there is Ahmed Dahmani, arrested in November 2015 in Turkey and convicted of terrorism. The Turkish authorities will not hand him over to France before he has served two thirds of his sentence. The other 5 are thought to have died between Syria and Iraq, but there is no evidence.
In October there should be between 13 and 17 witnesses a day. Each for about thirty minutes. The then president will also testify Francois Hollande and former Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve. Each witness or person involved will have a colored ribbon: red for those who want to avoid the press, green for those who want to speak. The fear is to become the targets of a new jihadist action, the will is to tell the horror immediately.
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