On Friday, closing statements in the Paris attacks trial came to an end with pleas from the two lawyers representing Salah Abdeslam, the sole survivor of the terrorist group which caused the deaths of 132 people in the November 2015 massacres.
"Justice has nothing to do with cruelty. It is not intended to please the crowd. If you punish this man as the prosecution demands, terrorism will have won . . . and we'll know that all this has been nothing but a farce."
