After ten months of proceedings, the trial of the attacks of November 13 officially ended on Tuesday July 12, none of the accused having appealed.
Salah Abdeslam, sentenced to incompressible life imprisonment for his role in the attacks of November 13, 2015 in France, has not appealed his sentence, Paris Attorney General Remy Heitz told AFP on Tuesday.
“ None of the twenty defendants appealed.l,” said Remy Heitz. “The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor and the Attorney General at the Paris Court of Appeal have not appealed this decision either. “, he said in a press release.
The decision of the special assize court of Paris has therefore acquired a final character today and there will therefore be no appeal “.
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The ten-day appeal period expired Monday at midnight.
On June 29, and after nearly ten months of a trial ” historical “, Salah Abdeslam had become the fifth man in France condemned to the incompressible perpetuitythe highest sanction of the penal code which makes any possibility of release minimal.
His 19 co-defendants – six of whom five were presumed dead were tried in their absence – were sentenced to terms ranging from two years to life imprisonment.
During the trialthe only surviving member of the jihadist commandos that left 130 dead and hundreds injured in Paris and the nearby town of Saint-Denis, claimed to have “ renounced to release his belt in a Parisian bar on the evening of the attacks, by “ humanity “.
The explosive vest that Salah Abdeslam was carrying was not workingl”, handing over “ seriously in question “his statements on his” renunciation “replied the court in its deliberation.
She found the 32-year-old Frenchman guilty of being the ” co-author “of a” single crime scene ”: the Stade de France, the machine-gunned Parisian terraces and the Bataclan concert hall.
The defense of the main defendant had pleaded in vain against a “ slow death sentence ” aiming to “ permanently neutralize an enemy » and not a man having « evolved during the hearing.
Contacted by AFP, Salah Abdeslam’s lawyers had not yet reacted on Tuesday morning.
(With AFP)