After a suspension of fifteen days, the trial briefly resumed, Thursday, in the presence of Salah Abdeslam but was again suspended against the refusal of Osama Krayem to appear. The President of the Court has asked for the use of force, before the accused accepts himself at the hearing.
Le Monde with AFP.
The trial of the attacks of 13-November took over, Thursday, January 6, in front of the Paris Special Assize Court, in the presence of Salah Abdeslam, declared “able” to appear after taking the SARS-COV-2 to the end of December. The hearing, which began at 12:55, was, however, immediately suspended against the refusal to appear from another accused, the Swedish Osama Krayem, whose interrogation was scheduled for this Thursday.
The President of the Special Assize Court, Jean-Louis Rires, requested the use of force to appear at the accused at the hearing. The 29-year-old accused finally decided to introduce himself and took place in the box alongside his co-accusations. “It’s good that you were deliberately coming,” said the President of the Court, reminiscent of the accused his “right to remain silent”.
His lawyer had previously explained that his client had “made the decision” not to “express until the end of the debates”. M e Margaux Durand-Poincroux asked to read a letter written by his client to explain his position to the court. “I saw how the debates took place and I lost hope,” says Osama Krayem. “We all pretend, this trial is an illusion,” he adds. “I do not think today today that I appear changes anything, that’s why I made the decision to stop explaining.”
Salah Abdeslam ” able “to attend the audience
Alone member still alive from the Jihadist commandos who had 130 dead in Paris and Saint-Denis on November 13, 2015, Salah Abdeslam was, more appeared in the box since November 25, refusing, like Osama Krayem To present itself to protest against the physical absence at the Belgian investigator bar. Salah Abdeslam had contracted the coronavirus on December 27, during the suspension of the trial, but several medical expertise confirmed in recent days that it was fit to attend hearings.
The trial had briefly taken over Tuesday after fifteen days of suspension, but Salah Abdeslam being always placed at isolation after his positive test, the hearing had been suspended until Thursday. A supplement of medical expertise, ordered by the President of the Court, confirmed that the main accused was “able to attend the hearings of the Assize Court”.
At the end of nearly four months of hearing marked by the auditions of survivors of attacks and their relatives, the trial between, henceforth, in a new phase, that of the interrogation on the substance of the file of the fourteen accused present – six others, including five alleged dead, are judged in their absence.