A river indictment that is coming to an end. The three general attorneys of the trial of the attacks of November 13, 2015 will announce the sentences required against the 20 defendants, Friday, June 10. Since Wednesdaythe representatives of the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat) are striving to reconstruct with great meticulousness “the puzzle” of the worst attacks committed on French soil. Their submissions precede the defense pleadings, before the verdict, expected on June 29, more than nine months after the opening of an extraordinary hearing before the special assize court in Paris. Follow our live.
An “incompressible” security period for Salah Abdeslam? The main defendant of the trial, the only living member of the November 13 commando, is the only one to appear for “murders, kidnappings and attempted murders in an organized gang in connection with a terrorist enterprise”, and not for complicity. Her “square” within the jihadist cell “is other than that of an accomplice: he did not just help in the preparation, he participated in it”argued the magistrate Camille Hennetier from the start of the requisitions, recalling that he is returned as “co-author” attacks. The Pnat could ask for life with a security period “incompressible” against him, a sanction making the possibility of obtaining an adjustment of sentence and therefore a release very small.
Twelve defendants face life imprisonment. “Convinced” that “11 men” were to be part of the commandos, the Pnat, during its indictment, challenged “strongly the expression of ‘second knives'”. Thus, in his eyes, the Swede Osama Krayem and the Tunisian Sofien Ayari are “well and good” “accomplices” attacks committed in Paris and Saint-Denis. Childhood friend of Salah Abdeslam, Mohamed Abrini, “the man in the hat” of the attacks in Brussels in March 2016, was also “well planned” for November 13, according to the public prosecutor. Among the 20 defendants referred to the special assize court of Paris, six are tried in their absence.
“There are still gray areas”. Advocate General Camille Hennetier, who opened the ball of requisitions, admitted on Wednesday that the trial had not been able to reveal everything. For his part, David Fritz-Goeppinger, hostage of the Bataclan commando, photographer and writer, estimated, Friday morning on franceinfo, that thehas justice “was restorative” and gave a “maximum answers” during the trial. He publishes a diary of the trial every week on franceinfo since its opening. But he would have liked “know more” on “childhood” commando members, “their personal construction” and “the wheels” of “their radicalization”.