Abdeslam comes to preliminary hearing on Brussels terror attacks: “Don’t relive transports with body searches and straitjackets” | Inland
“It is a preliminary session, so he is not present. My client does not want to rehearse the transports he experienced during the Driesstraat trial — with body searches, straitjackets, balaclavas,… —” Salah Abdeslam’s lawyer, Michel Bouchat.
He said from October 10, date when the jury will be executed and the trial will really begin.
Bouchat will ask at the hearing on Monday that the defendant’s box be demolished. “We can talk to you about the presumption of innocence, but my concern is that speaking the duties should be allowed to appear before his judges in all serenity. I’m not asking for a seat. I just want him not to be handled like an animal,” the lawyer argues.
look. This is what the courtroom with the guilty boxes looks like
Delphine Paci, Abdeslam’s lawyer, wants to obtain a relaxation of the conditions of detention of her client in the prison of Itter through the appeals committee of the Central Supervisory Council for the Prisons. “He is locked in a converted cell with no windows. Without any natural light,” says master Bouchat.