Courtroom sketch of Salah Abdeslam at the special criminal court in Paris, June 27, 2022. SERGIO AQUINDO FOR LE MONDE
On Tuesday, November 4, lawyer Olivia Ronen’s calendar did not have much scheduled. Certainly not accompanying her longtime client, Salah Abdeslam, during police custody. Abdeslam was being held at the Vendin-le-Vieil prison in northern France. Notified early that morning, she rushed onto the first train heading to Lens.
The authorities wanted to question the last surviving member of the group behind the November 13, 2015, attacks, suspecting that he had accessed, via four USB sticks, messages and videos containing jihadist propaganda. For nearly seven hours, in front of investigators from the anti-terrorism unit of the judicial police, Abdeslam exercised his right to remain silent on the advice of his lawyer, as he had done throughout most of the investigation leading up to the trial for the attacks, which left 132 dead and hundreds wounded.
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