Trial of the November 13 attacks: after 10 months of hearing, the time for the verdict

After 10 months of hearing, the hour of the verdict.

At the trial of November 13, the court is due to render its long-awaited decision on the fate of Salah Abdeslam and his co-accused on Wednesday June 29 in the evening, tried since September for the worst attacks ever committed in France.

The reading of the deliberations could begin

, announced President Jean-Louis Périès late Monday morning, before the special assize court withdrew to deliberate in a secret location after 148 days of audience.

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Before that and in front of a packed room at the Paris courthouse, she had given the floor for the last time to the 14 defendants present - six others, including five senior Islamic State officials presumed dead, are being tried in their absence.

, argued from the box the main of them, Salah Abdeslam, reiterating his

apologies to the victims.

the only surviving member of the commandos who killed 130 people in Paris and Saint-Denis on November 13, 2015 told the court.

, asserted Salah Abdeslam.

The prosecution requested against him the heaviest sentence provided for by the penal code: life imprisonment with an incompressible security period, which makes any possibility of release minimal.

In a plea aimed at avoiding this

, his defense recalled that the sentence had only been pronounced four times, against men recognized as

and convicted of crimes committed against minors.

Salah Abdeslam, who argued at the hearing that he had given up using his explosive vest

, is

a sociopath", insisted one of his lawyers, Me Olivia Ronen.

He is a

, but the sanction requested is worthy of a

which judges

and not

, vilified his colleague Me Martin Vettes.

“The blood of all the victims on his hands”

The 32-year-old Frenchman adopted during the trial

, had estimated the three representatives of the national anti-terrorism prosecution (Pnat).

But he

on the evening of the attacks, and has

.

Six years after a night of terror that traumatized France and after a river trial marked by the chilling stories of nearly 400 survivors or relatives at the helm - out of nearly 2,600 civil parties - defense lawyers have put the court warns against the temptation of an

guided by emotion.

On the first day on September 8, the president had wanted

remain the

of this

, some reminded him, arguing against the sentences

,

or for the

required according to them by the prosecution.

, asked Me Orly Rezlan.

, urged Me Marie Violleau, lawyer for Mohamed Abrini,

for November 13 but who had given up, as he would do a few months later in Brussels.

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The sentences requested against the 20 defendants range from five years' imprisonment to life imprisonment, in particular required for the

of the attacks, all members of the same jihadist cell whose commandos were

according to the general attorneys.

The irreducible life sentence was also requested against Osama Atar,

of the Islamic State group and sponsor of the attacks, presumed dead in Syria.

Three lawyers pleaded acquittal for their

clients .

,” repeated one of them in his last words in court on Monday.

, acknowledged another between sobs.