Salah Abdeslam is a “co-author” of the November 13 attacks. In its verdict delivered this Wednesday evening after ten months of trial and 149 days of hearings, the Assize Court specially constituted to judge the worst attacks on French soil since 1945 retained the legal analysis of the national anti-terrorist prosecution, considering the Stade de France, the Bataclan and the terraces as “a single crime scene”.
The 32-year-old Franco-Belgian, who admitted having deposed three suicide bombers from Saint-Denis, is therefore found guilty of 130 aggravated murders, and he does not escape the heaviest sentence in the French penal code, the one which had been requested by the public prosecutor and which his defense failed to avoid: life imprisonment with…