November 13 attacks: Abdeslam's defense wants to avoid his "social death"

"Will one day Salah Abdeslam be able to return to society or is he lost forever?"

For nine months, or 147 days, this fundamental question hovered over the specially composed Assize Court.

When the accused distinguished himself in multiple provocations - by claiming, for example, that the terrorist commando

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But also when he apologized to the victims of November 13, tears streaming down his cheeks.

This question, formulated by his lawyer, Me Martin Vettes, during his argument, will be present in the minds of the judges, when they choose to follow, or not, the prosecution in its request to condemn him to criminal imprisonment. in perpetuity with an incompressible security period.

The most severe penalty in the criminal code in France, which amounts to

, castigated the defense of the accused on Friday, closing the ball of defense pleadings.

If you follow the prosecution, terrorism will have won

Me Olivia Ronen, lawyer for Salah Abdeslam

"Let's not be naive"

As for Mohamed Abrini the day before, the two lawyers...

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