Olivia Ronen didn’t say if Salah Abdeslam would attraction in opposition to the decision and sentence. He has 10 days by which to take action.
Abdeslam was discovered responsible on Wednesday of homicide and tried homicide in relation with a terrorist enterprise, amongst different expenses, over his involvement within the so-called Islamic State assaults on the Bataclan theatre, Paris cafes and France’s nationwide stadium that killed 130 individuals.
The lawyer for the one surviving attacker from the November 2015 terrorist bloodbath in Paris has criticised her consumer’s homicide conviction and life jail sentence with out the potential of parole, saying the decision “raises severe questions”.
Among the many victims was Briton Nick Alexander, 35, of Weeley, close to Colchester.
Mr Alexander died on the Bataclan live performance corridor, the place he was promoting merchandise for the band Eagles Of Loss of life Steel.
Ms Ronen argued all through the marathon trial of Abdeslam and 19 different males that her consumer had not detonated his explosives-packed vest and had not killed anybody the night time of the deadliest peacetime assaults in French historical past.
However, Abdeslam, a 32-year-old Belgian, was given essentially the most extreme sentence attainable in France for homicide and that “raises severe questions”, Ms Ronen mentioned in an interview with public radio station France Inter.
Throughout his trial testimony, Abdeslam informed a particular terrorist courtroom in Paris that he was a last-minute addition to the nine-member attacking squad that unfold out throughout the French capital on November 13 2015 to launch the co-ordinated assaults at a number of websites.
Abdeslam mentioned he walked right into a bar with explosives strapped to his physique however modified his thoughts and disabled the detonator. He mentioned he couldn’t kill individuals “singing and dancing”.
The courtroom discovered, nevertheless, that Abdeslam’s explosives vest malfunctioned, dismissing his declare that he determined to not comply with by way of together with his a part of the assault due to a change of coronary heart.
The opposite eight attackers, together with Abdeslam’s brother, both blew themselves up or had been killed by police. Abdeslam drove three of them to the places of the assaults that night time.
The worst carnage was within the Bataclan. Three gunmen burst into the venue, firing indiscriminately.
Ninety individuals died inside minutes. Tons of had been held hostage – some gravely injured – for hours earlier than then-president Francois Hollande ordered that the theatre be stormed.
Abdeslam was nowhere close to the Bataclan at any time that night time, defence lawyer Ms Ronen mentioned, suggesting he due to this fact didn’t deserve France’s most extreme homicide sentence attainable.
“We’ve condemned an individual we all know was not on the Bataclan as if he was there,” Ms Ronen mentioned. “That raises severe questions.”
