Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam still silent in new court appearance

Alasdair Sandford

 

 

PARIS: -- One of the suspects in the Paris terror attacks last November has again refused to speak when he appeared before a judge for the third time.

 

Salah Abdeslam was driven under tight security at dawn from his cell in a jail south of Paris to the Palais de Justice.

 

He was accompanied by his French and Belgian lawyers.

 

“He used the right to silence, he invoked his right to silence during questioning that lasted about an hour and a half so he wanted to remain silent for the third time regarding questions that were posed by the judge. There you are. We don’t have much else to tell you at the moment other than the judge is pursuing the pre-trial procedure, pursuing his questioning whether he answers or not, at the moment he doesn’t wish to talk,” said Abdeslam’s French lawyer, Frank Berton.

 

Abdeslam, a Belgian-born French national of Moroccan descent, also failed to speak when he previously appeared before a judge in May. During his first appearance on April 27 he said he did want to talk at a later stage.

 

He is believed to be angry at round-the-clock camera surveillance in prison, which his lawyers have failed to get halted.

 

The 26-year-old was transferred to France in April from Belgium following his arrest the previous month in the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek – and charged with several terrorist offences.

 

Investigators have been trying to establish Abdeslam’s exact role in last November’s attacks on Parisian bars, restaurants and the Bataclan music venue in which 130 people were killed and hundreds more injured.

 

 

-- © Copyright Euronews 2016-09-09

Dont they stay silent because they do not recognise the court,and consider them selves to be tried by a military court because they think they are prisoners of war?

Water board the sob

4 hours ago, helpisgood said:

 

I don't like the guy either, but what you have bothered to describe in detail is sick. 

Not half as sick as the atrocities abdesalam carried out on innocent people

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The court needs to convict him to: 25 years in solitary confinement, no reduction for "good behaviour," as for food only plain bread (2 slices) for breakfast, lunch and dinner and no rice, as for drinks just water, no koran or other reading materials, no books, newspapers, or tv, no contact with anybody, guards must be instructed not to talk with him, no information as to the right direction to Mecca, no prayer mat, 1 hour per week - alone - in a cage outside, in winter insufficient blankets and no visitors. Upon release (if he is still alive) a free one-way trip to the middle of the Sahara.

That will teach him not to kill 130 innocent people and injure/maim hundreds more.