The assize trial for the attacks of March 22, 2016 in Brussels resumed on Monday September 4 when eight of the ten accused were found guilty last July. If the sentences remain to be fixed, Salah Abdeslam asks to serve his sentence to come to Belgium, while he was sentenced to life imprisonment in France for the November 2015 attacks in Paris. A summary procedure was brought against the Belgian State to oppose his return to France and the hearing was held on Monday.
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With our correspondent in Brussels, Pierre Benazet
According to Salah Abdeslam, my future is in Belgium, (…) to send me to France is to send me to death said the 33-year-old terrorist on Monday. However, he had given up opposing his transfer to France at the time of the launch of investigation of the Paris attacksnor did he object to the fact that his surrender to Belgium for the ongoing trial would only be ” temporary “.
But for his lawyers, his family ties in Belgium justify his serving the future sentence there. Salah Abdeslam was, according to them, imprisoned in disgraceful conditions in France for six and a half years: no human contact, filmed 24 hours a day, in a 9m2 cell in Fleury-Mérogis prison.
” My rehabilitation depends on it “says the jihadist, because he was sentenced in France to irreducible life imprisonment.
The sentence is not yet known for the Brussels bombings trialbut it should be imposed within two weeks by the judges and the jury: Salah Abdeslam has already been found guilty of terrorist assassinationsthe heaviest verdict incurred during this assize trial.