Very vindictive from the opening of this "historic" and "extraordinary" trial, the only surviving member of the commandos (which left 130 dead and hundreds wounded in Paris and Saint-Denis on November 13, 2015), claimed that he had "given up all profession to become an Islamic State fighter" and when the court asked him to disclose his identity, Abdeslam declared "that there is no god but Allah and that Mohammed is his messenger ”.
The 31-year-old Franco-Moroccan, who had been rather silent since his arrest in Belgium in March 2016, did not hesitate to speak ... even when he was not invited. The brief discomfort of one of his co-defendants - a total of 20 people are tried for nine months - was the opportunity for Salah Abdeslam to launch a retribution against the French justice. Standing, the mask removed, raising the tone and the index pointing towards the court composed only of professional magistrates, he launched that the defendants were "treated like dogs". "Here it is very beautiful, there are flat screens, air conditioning but over there (in prison) we are mistreated", belched Abdeslam, accused of complicity in terrorist crimes and who faces life imprisonment. “I've been treated like a dog for six years.I have never complained because I know that afterwards we will be resuscitated and that you will have to be accountable, ”he added.
The multiple provocations of Salah Abdeslam "sounded" the victims present. “I came out in pieces, breathes Gaëtan, victim, present at the Bataclan the evening of the attacks. I tell myself once again there is no limit in dignity and that we saw again yesterday that it was possible to go even further in the abject. I have no words, no, he is in his role, you will tell me, but I was deeply shocked. It's a bit caricature but it really hurts as a victim this kind of thing, really it was hard ”.