sentenced on June 29 to incompressible life for his role in the attacks of November 13, he will be imprisoned in a Belgian prison before starting a new judicial marathon, from October 10, with the trial of the attacks de Bruxelles.
Le Monde
Salah Abdeslam was extracted from Fleury-Mérogis prison (Essonne), Wednesday July 13, to be transferred to Belgium where he must be tried from October for the Brussels attacks in March 2016, learned The France-Presse agency (AFP).
He will then be imprisoned in a Belgian prison, before starting a new legal marathon from October 10, with the trial of the attacks which left 32 dead in Brussels on March 22, 2016 – organized by the same jihadist cell as The Islamic State organization that the attacks of November 13. These debates could last until the summer of 2023.
On June 29, after almost ten months of trial, justice condemned Salah Abdeslam to imprisonment that is incompressible for its role in the attacks of November 13, 2015. He is the only member still alive Islamist commandos who centered thirty deaths in Paris and Saint-Denis. This sentence – the highest sanction of the penal code – makes any possibility of release. The 32-year-old Frenchman, for total isolation in prison for more than six years, has not appealed, making his final conviction.
Behind this highly exemplary sentence pronounced at the end of a trial for history, however, hides a paradox: Salah Abdeslam has not been sentenced to incompressible life for the terrorist assassination of one hundred and thirty people. If it faces real perpetuity, it is with regard to an offense of ordinary law: attempts to murder against police officers committed by three of his accomplices in Bataclan.
judged in Belgium alongside Four of his co -accused of Paris
The nineteen co -accused of Salah Abdeslam – six, including five alleged dead, were tried in their absence – were sentenced to sentences ranging from two years’ imprisonment to perpetuity. None of them used either.
At the trial of the Brussels attacks, Salah Abdeslam will be tried alongside four of his co -accused in Paris: Mohamed Abrini, “The Hat Man” of the Brussels attacks, the Swedish Osama Krayem, the Tunisian Sofien Ayari and the Belgian-Moroccan Ali El Haddad Asufi.
They must also be transferred to Belgium. Mohammed Abrini arrived there on Tuesday and was imprisoned in a prison in the country, one of his lawyers, Stanislas Eskenazi told AFP. On June 29, he was sentenced to life with a safety sentence of twenty-two years. At the hearing, he had admitted that he was “planned” for the attacks of November 13, but had, as in Belgium a few months later, renounced at the last moment.
Salah Abdeslam had been arrested in Belgium on March 18, 2016 after several months of run. He was definitively given to France under a European arrest warrant a month later. He will return to his sentence in France after the Belgian trial.
Once all his final convictions, he will be legally possible to ask to do his sentence in Belgium, where he grew up and where his whole family resides.
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