Extract by the GIGN
Salah Abdeslam was extracted from the prison of Fleury-Mérogis (Essonne) where his conditions of detention were often criticized, we learned early this morning by AFP.
He was taken from the remand center on Wednesday morning between 8:00 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. by members of the Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN), then taken to an airport from where a plane will take off for Belgium, said these sources. .
On June 29, following almost ten months of a trial “historical“, Salah Abdeslam was sentenced to incompressible life imprisonment by the special assize court in Paris for his role in the attacks of November 13, 2015 in Paris and Saint-Denis.
Having not appealed once morest his judgment, he is now transferred to Belgium in order to best prepare for the second legal marathon that awaits him. On October 10, the trial of the attacks which killed 32 people in Brussels on March 22, 2016 will begin – organized by the same jihadist cell of the Islamic State group as the attacks of November 13. These debates might last until the summer of 2023.
The federal prosecution confirms that Mohamed Abrini, the man in the hat, has also been transferred. He also specifies that 3 other convicts from the trial of the Paris attacks – future defendants of the Brussels trial – the Swedish Osama Krayem, the Tunisian Sofien Ayari and the Belgian-Moroccan Ali El Hadda Asufi will also be handed over to Belgium. Without specifying in which prison or the date of transfer for security reasons.
“It’s normal that they are transferred because we have to prepare Brussels“the lawyer for one of these defendants told us this morning.
