Are the accused’s remorse sincere?

Monday, June 27, the defendants of the attacks of November 13 pronounced their last words during the final hearing of the trial. Salah Abdeslam, the only member of the commandos still alive, is the last to rise. He repeated, once again, that he was not an assassin. “I am not a killer. And if you convict me of murder, you’re committing an injustice“, he said. Mohammed Amri, who had brought him back to Brussels (Belgium), the day after the attacks, declares that he regrets having exfiltrated him. “Jshould have pulled him out of the car“, he says.

Mohamed Abrini, accused of having prepared the attacks, heard the testimonies of the victims. “Jfeel a lot of remorse because, somewhere, I could have stopped all this“, he regrets. Are these remorses sincere? Bruno, a survivor, wants to believe it. “This kind of exercise, there is a little sincerity and there is a lot of preparation”, underlines Me Jean Reinhart, lawyer for the association “13onze15 fraternité et Vérité.” The prosecution asked for sentences ranging from five years in prison to incompressible life imprisonment.