Tuesday's session at the special criminal court in Paris ended abruptly when the fifty lawyers defending those accused of complicity in the November 2015 terrorist attacks left the courtroom en masse. They were protesting against "an atmosphere unfavourable to their clients' interests". The walk-out brought a premature end to a day marked by further unsatisfactory evidence from the sole surviving attacker, Salah Abdeslam.
Abdeslam is an infuriating individual.
