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2021-09-06 Europe
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France set to open biggest trial in its modern history over 2015 Paris attacks
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[IsraelTimes] Court case over terror attacks that killed 130 to begin Wednesday, will see 20 defendants tried, including one of the button men who has so far refused to cooperate with proceedings
The biggest trial in La Belle France’s modern legal history begins on Wednesday over the November 2015 attacks on Gay Paree that saw 130 people slaughtered at bars, restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall.
The suicide kaboom and gun assault by three teams of jihadists, later claimed by the Islamic State
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...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
terror group, was La Belle France’s worst post-war atrocity.
A purpose-built facility at the historic court of justice on the Ile de la Cite in central Gay Paree will host the trial, with 14 of the 20 defendants present, including the only surviving attacker, Salah Abdeslam.
"Everyone has their own expectations, but we know that this is an important milestone for our future lives," said Arthur Denouveaux, a survivor of the Bataclan music venue attack and president of the Life for Gay Paree victims’ association.
The trial over the traumatic terror killings, which were planned from Syria, is on a scale unmatched in recent times.
It will last nine months, until late May 2022, with 145 days for hearings involving about 330 lawyers, 300 victims and former president Francois Hollande
...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist...
, who will testify in November.
The case file runs to a million pages in 542 volumes, measuring 53 meters across.
SECURITY ALERT
Surviving gunman Abdeslam, a Belgium-born French-Moroccan, expeditiously departed at a goodly pace of the carnage after abandoning his suicide belt, which Sherlocks found to be defective.
Abdeslam, now 31, was later captured in Brussels, hiding in a building close to his family home, after four months on the run.
He has resolutely refused to cooperate with the French investigation and remained largely silent throughout a separate trial in Belgium in 2018 that saw him declare only that he put his "trust in Allah" and that the court was biased.
| His silence got him a sentence of twenty years in Belgian prisons. Perhaps he will be silent again during his French trial. |
A major question is whether he will speak at his scheduled testimony in mid-January 2022.
Another focus of the trial will be on how the squad of killers managed to come undetected into La Belle France, allegedly using the flow of migrants colonists from Islamic State-controlled regions of Syria as cover.
Fourteen of the accused — who face a range of charges from providing logistical support, to planning and weapons offenses — are expected to be present in court.
Six more suspects are being tried in absentia. Five of them are presumed dead, mainly in Arclight airstrike
 ...KABOOM! ...
s in Syria, including French jihadist brothers Fabien and Jean-Michel Clain.
| ...Fabien Clain was also known before he kissed a missile as Brother Omar and Abu Adam al-Farans. The Reunion Island native was estimated to be one of the top ranked French jihadis in ISIS — among those not yet killed — along with his brother, Jean-Michel Clain, wounded in the same attack and left to suffer until a mortar caught up with him. After recruiting jihadis to fight the Americans in Iraq for the Artigat cell in Tolouse, they emigrated to ISIS in 2015. The Clain boys are accused of planning to send child soldiers to Europe disguised as asylum seekers, among other clever ideas... |
The alleged coordinator, Belgian national Abdelhamid Abaaoud,
| ...Mr Abaaoud fought for IS in Syria, then was promoted to criminal mastermind of a large Francophone network in Europe which committed a series of attacks in France and Belgium in 2015-16, even after he was killed in shootout with French police following the November 13, 2015 Paris massacre. In addition to the November Paris attack, his projects included the Vervier, Belgium cell plot foiled in January, 2015, Ayoub El-Khazzani’s attempted August Thalys train attack, and the March 22, 2016 attack on Zaventem airport in Brussels that had over 200 casualties... |
was killed by French police northeast of Gay Paree five days after the attacks.
CROSSED FROM SYRIA
The horror was unleashed late on the night of Friday, November 13, when murderous Moslems set off suicide belts outside the Stade de La Belle France stadium where President Hollande was in the crowd watching La Belle France play Germany at football.
A single person was killed there, 63-year-old Portuguese driver Manuel Colaco Dias.
A group of Islamist button men, including Abdeslam’s brother Brahim Abdeslam, then indiscriminately opened fire from a car on half a dozen restaurants in the trendy 10th and 11th districts of the capital which were packed with people winding down on the balmy autumn evening.
The massacre culminated at the Bataclan music venue where Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,n group Eagles of Death Metal were performing to a packed house.
Three jihadists stormed in as the band was playing the number "Kiss the Devil." A total of 90 people bit the dust there.
Hollande, facing another terror crisis just 10 months after button men attacked the Charlie Hebdo
... A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
magazine in Gay Paree, ordered borders closed and declared a state of emergency, a first since the Algerian War more than half a century earlier.
‘STEP FORWARDS’
The trial is also expected to lay bare the enduring psychological wounds of survivors, the 350 who were maimed and families who lost loved ones, who will give five weeks of testimony starting on September 28.
"I have to attend. I will surely suffer but it is a step forwards," said Cristina Garrido, a 60-year-old Spaniard who lost her son Juan Alberto at the Bataclan. "What I want is for (the defendants) to hear the pain they left us with," she told AFP in Madrid.
Abdeslam’s defense, led by lawyer Olivia Ronen, 31, have said that, while the trial will be filled with emotions, the "judiciary must keep its distance if it does not want to lose sight of the principles that underpin our state of law."
Under current scheduling, the verdict is due to be read out on May 24 and 25, 2022.
The only comparable precedent for the trial is the one for the January 2015 attacks against the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly and a Jewish supermarket, which opened in September 2020.
Three attacks carried out by "lone wolf" young radical Islamists, including the October 16 beheading of teacher Samuel Paty, shook La Belle France as that trial was ongoing. 
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