To condemn Salah Abdeslam to irreducible life imprisonment, the heaviest of penalties in our criminal code, the specially composed Paris Assize Court relied on a legal construction.
It considers, in fact, that
"each of the terrorists present in Paris and Saint-Denis must be regarded as co-perpetrators of all
the attacks committed on November 13, 2015
, without distinction of the target assigned to each of them"
.
This is the so-called “single crime scene” theory.
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This precondition posed, it can conclude that the only member of the Islamist commandos still alive
“voluntarily killed 130 people
(…)
tried to voluntarily kill
(other)
people
(…)
kidnapped people
( …)
and attempted to voluntarily kill the BRI police officers who intervened at the Bataclan
(…)
all acts committed in an organized gang and in relation to a terrorist enterprise”
.
It is undisputed that Salah Abdeslam, who filed at the Stade de France…
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