Salah Abdeslam in court
-France Bleu
Today in Paris, the terrorist trial of Salah Abdeslam and several others opened. Abdeslam, in true terrorist fashion, told the court that, "there is no divinity but Allah, and Mohamed is his messenger". He also identified himself as a fighter for the Islamic State.
Abdeslam is the lone surviving member of the terrorists who launched attacks in Paris and St-Denis on November 13, 2015 in which 130 people were slaughtered.
The below report from France Bleu is translated by Fousesquawk. (Note: The tweets are not translated.)
File: November 13 attacks trial
November 13 attacks trial: Salah Abdeslam presents himself as "Islamic State fighter"
Wednesday, 8 September 2021 14:05, updated Wednesday 8 September 2021 17:44 by Thibaut Lehut, France Bleu Paris
Salah Abdeslam, only member still living among the commandos of the November 13, 2015 attacks in Paris and Saint-Denis, presents himself Wednesday as "a fighter of the Islamic State" at the opening of the trial where he is being judged alongside 19 other alleged jihadists.
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Salah Abdeslam at the opening of the trial of the attacks of November 13. AFP-Benoit Peyrouq
The principal defendant of the November 13 attacks trial, Salah Abdeslam, declared Wednesday in his first words to the court that, "There is no divinity but Allah," when he was asked to state his identity at the opening of the session. "First of all, I want to state that there is no divinity but Allah and that Mohamed is his messenger," stated the only living member of the commandos who caused 130 deaths in Paris. Then asked about his profession, he answered, "I abandoned all profession(s) to become a fighter of the Islamic State."
The main defendant of the "historic" November 13 2015 attacks trial, which opened this Wednesday in mid-day, Salah Abdeslam stands in the dock, surrounded by several gendarmes. Black beard protruding from his mask of the same color, dark, shoulder-length hair combed back, black t-shirt, he talked for a moment with his attorneys, Olivia Ronen and Martin Vettes, before sitting down and then briefly speaking.
"The accused are treated like dogs"
Later during the session, Salah Abdeslam claimed that the accused were, "treated like dogs".
Twenty accused
Ten other accused are present in the dock. Three others, who remain free, are seated outside the dock in chairs. In the large room with 550 seats, are seated mostly black-robed lawyers, a few dozen civil parties, and journalists. In the morning, under the eye of cameras, an ultra-security convoy had left the Fluery-Merogis Prison, where the only surviving member of the jihadist commandos of November 13, 2015, Salah Abdeslam, has been incarcerated for more than 5 years in total isolation. On the banks of the Seine, the approaches to the old Palace of Justice had been blocked since dawn by a large security perimeter.
Filmed for (posterity), this trial will take place over 9 months, a duration without precedent for a criminal trial in France. "This will be, without doubt, the longest in history," Christian Saint-Palais, lawyer for one of the accused, told AFP (Agence France Presse). It is also unprecedented in the scope of the file(s)-542 volumes- by the number of civil parties-at least 1,800-and by its emotional weight. Some 550 people will be seated in the (court)room specially constructed within the courthouse.
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