A final opportunity to defend themselves.
The fourteen defendants present in the trial of the November 13 attacks spoke in turn on Monday.
It was the only sequence of this day of hearing, the 148th and last before the verdict.
Indeed, at the end of these speeches, the specially composed Assize Court will retire to a secret location to deliberate.
If you condemned me for murder, you would be committing an injustice
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In his last speech, Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving member of the commandos who killed 130 people in Paris and Saint-Denis (Paris region) on November 13, 2015, declared: “I made mistakes c It’s true, but I’m not an assassin, I’m not a killer, and if you condemn me for assassinations, you would be committing an injustice”.
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