The maxi-trial against the perpetrators of the terrorist massacres of 13 November 2015 at the Stade de France, the Bataclan and in front of the Parisian bistros opened today in the new bunker classroom built ad hoc at the courthouse in Paris.
14 defendants were present, among them the only one of the 10 commando suicide bombers who survived, the French-Moroccan Salah Abdselam, who has been detained for 5 years in a maximum security prison.
The process will take 9 months.
"Allah is the only god": these are the first words of Salah Abdeslam, the French-Moroccan sole survivor among the kamikaze of the terrorist commandos of November 13, 2015, addressed to the judges of the Paris court where the maxi-trial for the jihadist massacres. Abdeslam spoke before the president of the court questioned him to ask him, as usual, his identity. "I want, first of all - said the Franco-Moroccan - to testify that Allah is the only god and that Mohammed is his messenger". The President of the Court, Jean-Louis Périès, cut short these statements, replying simply but curtly: "we will see this later". Subsequently, Abdeslam confirmed his identity, but refused to decline the particulars of his parents: "the names of my father and my mother - he said - have nothing to do here ". Finally, when asked about his profession - addressed to all the accused - Salah Abdeslam replied that he" abandoned the profession to become a fighter of the Islamic State ".
