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Nicolas Vaux- montagny, Jeffrey Schaeffer, Barbara Surk
Paris (AP) — The only attacker lawyer who survived the November 2015 terrorist murder in Paris A conviction and life imprisonment for the murder of a client who was not likely to be released on parole, who criticized her, said the verdict "raises a serious problem" on Thursday.
Sarah Abdeslam, the main suspect in the Islamic State's attack on the Bataclan Theater, the Paris Cafe and the French National Stadium, which killed 130 people, was found guilty of murder on Wednesday and terrorized. Attempted murder in connection with the company. Other costs.
His lawyer, Olivia Ronen, has not exploded her client's explosive-packed vest through a marathon trial of Abdeslam and 19 other men. , Claimed that no one was killed that night. The worst peacetime attack in French history
A 32-year-old Belgian Abdeslam has been sentenced to the toughest possible murder in France and "raises a serious problem," Ronen said in a public radio interview. Said in. Station France Inter.
In the testimony of the trial, Abdeslam was added to the Special Terrorist Court in Paris on November 13, 2015, at the last minute of nine explosive troops spread throughout the French capital. Coordinated attack in.
Abdeslam said he had tied the explosive to his body and entered the bar, but changed his mind and disabled the detonator. He said he couldn't kill people who were "singing and dancing."
The court found that the Abdeslam explosive vest was malfunctioning and dismissed his claim that he decided not to carry out part of the attack due to a change of heart. Did.
Nine other attackers have either blown themselves up or have been killed by police. The worst genocide was Bataclan. Three gunmen rushed into the venue and fired indiscriminately. 90 people died within minutes. Hundreds of hostages were taken hostage and some were seriously injured before President Francois Hollande ordered the theater to be attacked.
Abdeslam wasn't near Bataclan at all times that night, lawyer Ronen said, thus suggesting that he wasn't worthy of France's toughest murder sentence possible.
"We blamed those who knew they weren't in Bataclan as if they were there," Ronen said. "It raises a serious issue." She did not say whether Abdeslam would appeal the verdict and judgment.
Life imprisonment without parole is a crime related to the rape and murder of minors and has only been issued four times in the country.
The Special Terrorist Court has also convicted 19 other men involved in the attack.
Of the other defendants, 18 were convicted of various terrorism-related convictions and one was convicted of less fraud. Some were sentenced to life imprisonment. Others walked freely after being sentenced to imprisonment.
I have 10 days to appeal.
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Surk reported by Nice, France. Paris Associated Press writers Alex Turnbull, Oleg Setinick, and Masha McPherson contributed to this report.
