The return of the terrorist, once detained in Belgium, is controversial, “based on an illegal decision” from the point of view of his lawyers. After his sentence to irreducible life imprisonment in June 2022 in Paris, the sole survivor of the November 13 commandos was temporarily handed over to Belgium in order to be tried there.
France opposed this, considering that it would contribute to distorting the sanction pronounced in France. “It was about asserting the right”: how Salah Abdeslam finally returned to France.