Paris attacker stresses affiliation with ISIS in front of French court
ERBIL, KRG, Iraq (North Press) – Five months after the trial began, the main accused of the November 13, 2015 attacks in Paris, Salah Abdesalam, defended himself on Wednesday in the first interrogation session to look into the case of the attacks in front of Paris Special Criminal Court.
Abdesalam is the only surviving member of the group that killed 130 people in Paris and Saint-Denis, France, in 2015.
“I didn’t kill or hurt anybody,” the 32 year-old Salah Abdesalam told the Paris Special Criminal Court, which opened his case five months ago, “I didn’t even make a scratch.”
He stressed he has been slandered since the start of the case, and reiterated his affiliation with the Islamic State Organization (ISIS).
During the investigation, Abdesalam was almost always silent except when he defended one of his accused fellows and once to make a religious sermon.
On the first day of the trial, he made his position clear when he presented himself as an ISIS soldier and that he had to “due to the French interventions in Syria.”