The accusation in the macro trial for the terrorist attacks of November 13, 2015 in Paris requested life imprisonment for four of the main defendantsincluding Salah Abdeslam, the only survivor of the commandos that carried out the attacks.
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After nine months of trial, the public ministry also demanded life imprisonment for Mohamed Abrini, the “man in the hat” of the March 2016 Brussels attacks, but with a mandatory term of 22 years.
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The sentences demanded against the 20 defendants range from 5 years in prison to life imprisonment without parole for Abdeslam and two former positions of the Islamic State group, who are presumed dead in the area of Syria and Iraq.
For the Belgian-French Abdeslam, who was part of the commandos that committed the attacks and had to immolate himself with a belt of explosives, something he did not do in the end, the prosecution requested a definitive detention, without being able to request his freedom after a ” security period.
“The crime is of such gravity that the sanction can only be in accordance with that gravity,” said prosecutor Camille Hennetier when announcing the prosecution’s request for sentences.
Also facing a request for life imprisonment, with a security period of 22 years, the Belgian Mohammed Abrini, known as the “man in the hat” for the images of the Brussels attacks in March 2016, which caused 32 deaths and 340 wounded.
The prosecution also requested life imprisonment for five other defendants absent from the trial, who are considered “very likely” to have died fighting in the Islamist ranks in the Syrian civil war.
Another ten of alleged involved face requests for sentences of between five and 30 years in prison.
The attacks of November 13, 2015 against various places in Paris and its outskirts caused 130 dead -90 of them in the Bataclan concert hall- and several hundred wounded.
Following the request of the prosecution, the different defenses of the twenty defendants will begin next Monday to present their final arguments and their requests for punishment. This macro trial, which began last September, is now nearing the end of its sessions, of which number 137 was completed this Friday.
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*With information from EFE and AFP
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