In the extraordinary trial of the attacks of November 13, 2015, which will begin on Wednesday, September 8, 20 defendants will appear before the special assize court of Paris, Île de la Cité.
In addition to Salah Abdeslam, the only member of the jihadist commando still alive, 19 other people are indicted in the investigation into the attacks which caused 130 deaths and more than 430 injured.
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Logisticians, conveyors, intermediaries ... Here is what we know of the 20 people suspected of having taken part, from near or far, in the attacks in Paris and Saint-Denis, north of the French capital.
Some are also involved in attacks in Belgium.
The accused present at the trial
Salah Abdeslam, 31 years old
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Born September 15, 1989 in Brussels, the Franco-Moroccan Salah Abdeslam, 31, is the only member of the November 13 commandos still alive.
He was close to Abdelhamid Abaaoud (one of his childhood friends), coordinator of several attacks in Europe and operational leader of the November 13 commandos.
Member of the “
terraces
” team, his older brother Brahim died when he blew himself up on the terrace of the bar Comptoir Voltaire.
Salah Abdeslam himself abandoned his explosives belt in the evening for reasons which remain unknown.
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He has since almost systematically remained silent in front of the judges or during his trial in Brussels in 2018, where he was sentenced to twenty years in prison for shooting at police officers a few days before his arrest in Belgium on March 18, 2016.
Salah Abdeslam has yet to be tried in Belgium - probably at the end of 2022 - for the double attack which killed 32 people in March 2016 at the airport and in a Brussels metro.
Mohamed Abrin, 36 years old
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Born on December 27, 1984, this 36-year-old Belgian-Moroccan is tried for having accompanied the November 13 commandos in the Paris region and participated in their financing and the supply of their weapons.
This childhood friend of the Abdeslam brothers was arrested in Brussels in April 2016. He has been detained in Belgium since that date and was transferred to France for trial.
He must also be tried in Belgium for the double suicide bombing of March 2016 in Brussels.
CCTV footage of Zaventem airport with two of the suicide bombers who blew themselves up there earned him the nickname "
the man in the hat
".
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Mohammed Amri, 33
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amri handout
Born on August 7, 1988, Mohammed Amri, 33, a Belgian-Moroccan close to the Abdeslam brothers, admitted having gone to pick up Salah Abdeslam by car on the evening of the attacks to bring him back to Belgium, knowing that he was involved in the attacks. .
Arrested in Belgium on November 14, he was extradited in July 2016 to France, where he has been imprisoned since that date.
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Hamza Attou, 27 years old
Born on May 4, 1994, Hamza Attou, a 27-year-old Belgian-Moroccan, was arrested in Belgium the day after the Paris attacks.
He had accompanied Mohammed Amri to pick up Salah Abdeslam from Paris.
Handed over to France in June 2016, he was imprisoned before being released under judicial supervision in May 2018.
Yassine Atar, 35 years old
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Younger brother of Osama Atar, born July 11, 1986, this 35-year-old Belgian-Moroccan man is suspected of having held a key to the Brussels hideout where Salah Abdeslam took refuge after the attacks.
It is also in this hideout that the explosive belts used in Paris were manufactured.
Arrested in Brussels in March 2016, he was extradited in June 2018 to France, where he is imprisoned.
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Sofien Ayari, 28 years old
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Tunisian born August 9, 1993, Sofien Ayari, 28, was Salah Abdeslam's companion in Belgium.
Having joined the Islamic State group in Syria at the end of 2014, he returned to Europe in 2015 accompanied by Osama Krayem and Ahmad Alkhad.
Arrested in Brussels at the same time as Salah Abdeslam in March 2016, he has already been sentenced to twenty years imprisonment in Belgium for having shot a police officer.
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His DNA was found in several hideouts that were used in the preparation of the November 13 attacks.
Investigators suspect him of having wanted to commit or prepare, with Osama Krayen, an attack at Amsterdam-Schiphol airport in parallel with the Parisian attacks.
Osama Krayem, 29 years old
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Of Swedish nationality, Osama Krayem, 29, born August 16, 1992, joined Syria in 2014 and then returned to Europe via the migrant route.
Like Sofien Ayari, he was Salah Abdeslam's companion in Brussels after the November 13 attacks.
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Detained in Belgium since April 2016, he was identified as one of the executioners of the Jordanian pilot murdered by ISIS in early 2015 in Syria.
He was involved in the attacks of March 22, 2016 in Brussels.
He was transferred to France for the trial.
Mohamed Bakkali, 34 years old
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Considered one of the logisticians of the commando, Mohamed Bakkali is accused of having rented cars for the attacks.
Detained in France since 2018, this 34-year-old Belgian-Moroccan, born April 10, 1987, is also being prosecuted for the rental, under a false identity, of hideouts for the jihadist cell in Brussels.
In addition, accused of having been the driver who brought Abdelhamid Abaaoud to Belgium and the gunman of the attack foiled by passengers in the Thalys train in August 2015, he was sentenced in this case to 25 years in prison in December. 2020. He appealed.
Abdellah Chouaa, 40 years old
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The last to be indicted in the investigation, this 40-year-old Belgian-Moroccan, born March 30, 1981, is suspected of having provided logistical support to the cell that prepared the attacks.
Son of an imam from the Brussels district of Molenbeek, he was left free under judicial supervision.
Ali El Haddad Asufi, 36 years old
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This Belgian-Moroccan, 36 years old, born September 23, 1984 was in regular contact with members of the Franco-Belgian jihadist cell.
He is accused of having participated in the supply of weapons.
He has been in detention since June 2019.
Adel Haddadi and Muhammad Usman, 34 and 28
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Adel Haddadi, 34, an Algerian born July 17, 1987, and Muhammad Usman, 28, a Pakistani born May 15, 1993, were arrested in December 2015, a month after the attacks, in a migrant home in Austria.
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The two men left Syria and joined Europe by the migrant route with two suicide bombers from the Stade de France.
They are suspected of having wanted to commit an attack in France.
Muhammad Usman is a former pyrotechnician of Pakistani jihadist groups known to be close to Al-Qaeda.
They have been detained in France since June 2016.
Farid Kharkhach, 39 years old
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Belgian-Moroccan, 39 years old, born July 4, 1982, Farid Kharkhach is accused of having provided false papers to the cell at the request of Khalid El Bakraoui, one of the perpetrators of the Brussels attacks.
Arrested in Belgium in January 2017, he has been detained in France since June 2017.
Ali Oulkadi, 39 years old
Close to Brahim Abdeslam, this 39-year-old Frenchman, born July 9, 1984, is suspected of having helped Salah Abdeslam go into hiding when he arrived in Brussels on November 14, but has always denied having been aware of the terrorist project of the cell.
Arrested in Belgium on November 22, 2015 and handed over to France in April 2016, he was imprisoned before being released under judicial supervision in June 2018.
The accused tried in their absence
Osama Atar, born in 1984, presumed dead
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Born May 4, 1984, Osama Atar is a jihad veteran identified by the war name "
Abu Ahmed al-Iraki
".
He is considered to be one of the heads of the intelligence branch of the Islamic State (IS) group.
According to the French magistrates, this Belgo-Moroccan is the authorizing officer of the Parisian attacks.
Never arrested, he was reportedly killed by a western strike in the Iraqi-Syrian zone in November 2017.
Ahmad Alkhald, born 1992, on the run
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Ahmad Alkhald, the assumed name behind which is the Syrian Omar Darif (whose date and place of birth remain unknown), is considered the only major actor of the November 13 commandos still on the run.
His DNA was found on explosive belts used in Paris.
For investigators, he was one of the main fireworks of ISIS.
Fabien and Jean-Michel Clain, presumed dead
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Figures of French “
jihad
”, these two Toulouse brothers were reportedly killed in February or March 2019 in an air strike in Syria.
Fabien Clain has been identified as the man who recorded the audio message claiming the November 13 attacks and in which his brother Jean-Michel chanted religious songs.
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Ahmed Dahmani, 32, imprisoned in Turkey
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Ahmad Alkhald, the assumed name behind which is the Syrian Omar Darif (whose date and place of birth remain unknown), is considered the only major actor of the November 13 commandos still on the run.
His DNA was found on explosive belts used in Paris.
For investigators, he was one of the main fireworks of ISIS.
Obeida Aref Dibo, born in 1993, presumed dead
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Said Abu Walid Al-Souri, this Syrian was a member of the ISIS external operations cell, close to Ahmad Alkhad.
A cousin of men involved in the escape of Ahmed Dahmani, he is said to have died in a bombing in February 2016.