Prosecutors Seek Trial for Key Suspect in 2015 Paris Terror Attacks

Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving member of the commando units and four alleged members of the Franco-Belgian jihadist cell behind the November 13, 2015 attacks are targeted by 562-page requisitions, reports AFP. These attacks had left 130 dead. According to the same source, the investigating judges are now called upon to make the final decision on the outlines of this extraordinary trial, scheduled for 2021 in Paris.

Salah Abdeslam, who has been detained in France for more than three and a half years, will be tried in particular for "murders, attempted murders and kidnapping, in an organized gang and in connection with a terrorist enterprise."

The Pnat wishes that the emir of the Islamic State group Oussama Atar, a Belgian suspected of having planned the attacks from Syria, also be tried. Considered dead, this jihadist known by the war name of "Abou Ahmed" has never been arrested.

Sofien Ayari, Osama Krayem, Mohamed Abrini, Mohamed Bakkali, alleged members of the Franco-Belgian jihadist cell, are also involved in the Paris attacks and those of March 22, 2016 in Brussels (Belgium). The public prosecutor’s office has requested their referral for complicity in crimes.