(Updated with verdict, details)
PARIS, June 29 (Reuters) – Salah Abdeslam, considered the only surviving member of the Islamist commandos of November 13, 2015, was found guilty on Wednesday of all charges against him following the trial of the Saint-Jean attacks. Dennis and Paris.
He was notably found guilty of “participation in a criminal terrorist association of criminals” and “murders in an organized gang in connection with a terrorist enterprise”, announced the president of the Court of Assizes specially composed of Paris, Jean-Louis Pris , reading the verdict.
The French jihadist insisted during this river trial that he had “killed no one” and claimed to have given up triggering his explosive belt, but this argument was not accepted by the court.
The latter, on the other hand, considered that his explosive vest was not functional, which calls into question his assertions concerning his renunciation.
Salah Abdeslam was also found guilty of association with terrorist criminals given his integration into the Belgian terrorist cell well before what he claimed during the hearing, said Jean-Louis Pris.
The National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat) has requested incompressible life imprisonment against Salah Abdeslam, a sentence imposed only four times in France. His sentence will be announced later in the evening, like that of the other defendants.
All the defendants, with the exception of one, Farid Kharkhach, at the trial of these attacks which left 130 dead in Saint-Denis and Paris, were found guilty of all the charges against them, said Jean-Louis Pris . (Tangi Salan report, written by Jean Terzian, told by Bertrand Boucey)