(ANSA) - PARIS, 02 NOV - "I was a kind, calm, helpful type": speaking today at the Parisian maxi-trial on November 13 attacks, the main accused, Salah Abdeslam, presented himself as a simple person, with a fairly banal path, "impregnated by Western values", before its radicalization and the attacks that caused 130 deaths.
The special assize court examines the personalities of the 14 defendants present this week.
Abdeslam, 32, the only survivor of the terrorist commandos was the first of them. A delicate exercise. In fact, it is a question of talking about his life without "going over the bottom" of the dossier, a question that will be raised next year, in 2022. Beard, shaved head, gray vest and beige shirt, Abdeslam describes succinctly a "very simple" childhood. and happy, the son of Moroccan immigrants in Molenbeek, in the urban area of Brussels. Father tram driver, housewife mother, the fourth of five siblings, says he "went to public school in Belgium, I was imbued with Western values, I lived as you taught me to live in the West".
From the beginning of the trial, the one who presented himself as a "fighter of the Islamic State" has taken the different words to justify the attacks or criticize his conditions of detention.
(HANDLE).