Overview
- Attorney Olivia Ronen said the life-sentenced attacker is willing to exchange with willing parties civiles within a restorative-justice framework.
- Victims’ lawyer Samia Maktouf condemned the overture as “shameful, inexplicable and indecent” and argued he has not met the required truth, repentance and respect.
- Charlie Hebdo director Laurent “Riss” Sourisseau publicly opposed applying restorative justice in a way that would permit meetings with Abdeslam.
- Anti-terror prosecutors are investigating a USB found in detention that they say contained ISIS or Al-Qaida propaganda, with Abdeslam twice placed in police custody and then returned to prison.
- Abdeslam is contesting his solitary-confinement status at the Vendin-le-Vieil prison as disputes over his prison conditions persist.