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Trial of November 13: the hearing resumes, in the presence of Salah Abdeslam

2022-01-06T12:50:38.196Z


Salah Abdeslam, the main accused, was declared "fit" to appear after testing positive for Covid at the end of December.


The trial of the November 13 attacks resumed this Thursday before the special assize court in Paris, in the presence of the main accused, Salah Abdeslam, declared "fit" to appear after having tested positive for Covid at the end of December.

The hearing resumed at 12:55 p.m. before being immediately suspended to have a bailiff note the refusal to appear of another accused, the Swede Osama Krayem, whose questioning was scheduled for Thursday.

The only surviving member of the jihadist commandos who killed 130 people in Paris and Saint-Denis on November 13, 2015, Salah Abdeslam had not appeared in the box since November 25, refusing, like Osama Krayem, to appear there for protest against the physical absence at the helm of Belgian investigators.

Salah Abdeslam had tested positive for Covid-19 on December 27, during the suspension of the trial, but several medical expertises have confirmed in recent days that he was fit to attend the hearings.

"No specific health measures"

The trial briefly resumed on Tuesday, after a two-week break.

Salah Abdeslam is still in solitary confinement after his positive test, the hearing was suspended until Thursday.

Additional medical expertise ordered by the president of the court, Jean-Louis Périès, confirmed that the main defendant was "able to attend the hearings of the Assize Court".

“On January 6, Mr. Salah Abdeslam will be 13 days from the onset of symptoms allowing the isolation to be lifted.

No specific health measures are to be taken in this context, ”underlined the expert report that AFP was able to consult.

At the end of nearly four months of hearings marked by hearings of survivors of the attacks and their relatives, the trial is now entering a new phase, that of the interrogation on the merits of the case of the 14 defendants present (six others, therefore five presumed dead, are tried in their absence).

The trial is due to end at the end of May.

Source: leparis

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