Paris Terror Trials re the 2015 Attack

The trial opens in Paris at last to deal with the 2015 atrocity that unfolded in the streets of the French capital culminating in the horrific Bataclan killings by men with machine guns. Only one of the jihadists, Salah Abdeslam, is alive to face tiral. The others are charged in connection with it.

It has opened with survivor accounts.

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Survivors of the terror attacks that killed 130 people in Paris in November 2015 have begun describing their ordeal in a Paris courtroom this week. The suspects on trial include Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving member of the IS cell that targeted the city on a busy Friday night. For the next five weeks around 350 survivors and relatives of the dead are scheduled to give their accounts. Some have already proved to be unbearably poignant.

BBC

What struck me as incredibly provocative was the defiant Abdeslam telling a Muslim woman whose friend died next to her in a car:

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Having got permission to speak, Abdeslam answered her: "What I have to say will not please everyone, but we targeted only non-believers. If we hit Muslims, that was not our intention." "I hear a lot of suffering. I hear the victims speak. I don't doubt they are good people, with many qualities. But there are victims on our side too, in Syria and Iraq, who were hit by coalition strikes. "We did not target Muslims, and if your sister was Muslim and if she died, that was an accident on our part."

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