At the end of an electric day, the examination of the main accused was interrupted. All Defense lawyers left the room to denounce the lack of response from the President after the public expressed his exasperation.
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The tension was mounted slowly, but surely, throughout the afternoon, before bursting at the end of the day as a summer storm.
Deserted in recent weeks, the courtyard of the Paris Special Assize Court had again refilled, Tuesday, March 15, to hear Salah Abdeslam, the most media accused of the trial of the attacks of 13 -November. The expectations are strong, too perhaps, to each of his interrogations. And after the first six months of experiencing debates, fatigue begins to settle in all the actors of this trial. His often awkward responses, sometimes insolent, rarely enlightening, have greatly helped to implode this febrile hearing.
It was nearly 18 hours when the defense lawyers – they are thirty – got up in the same momentum and left the room in Indian file, under the opposite minded interpreters. “The serenity of this hearing is irremediably compromised for today. We leave the hearing to mean that it must happen serenely,” said Salah Abdeslam’s advocate, M e Olivia Ronen, after his colleague asked the President to make a number of incidents in the day. The interrogation of their client, started five hours earlier, was not finished. Faced with deserted benches, the president, Jean-Louis Perès, had no choice but to suspend the debates.
You have to go back earlier in the afternoon to understand the origin of this incident. Asked for hours on his role in the preparations for the attacks, Salah Abdeslam recognized only the indisputable and evaded the rest. Why did he purchase remote firing systems? “To fart the fireworks”. Who asked him to go by car members of the commandos on their return from Syria? “No how,” I do not swallow “. Did he know what their mission was? He thought to save “brothers in Islam” who fleeing war, he said, daring a bad parallel with the “Ukrainians” against “Putin” or the Jews during the Second World War. “I did nothing wrong. You screwed my life.”
“You have destroyed lives!”
The exasperation was at its height when came the tour of a lawyer of civil parties. At the turn of a question, M e Sylvie Topaloff pointed out to the accused only if he refuses to “swing”, he still makes it dive into this case two of his friends in their asking to pick it up in Paris after the attacks.
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