Paris attacks terrorist Salah Abdeslam and the 'banality of evil'

Sketch of Salah Abdeslam, the only terrorist to survive the Paris attacks of 2015. © AFP - Benoit PEYRUCQ

On Thursday, the Paris special criminal court continued the psychiatric profiling of the 14 men being tried on suspicion of various levels of involvement in the November 2015 terrorist killings in the French capital. The spotlight fell, once again, on Salah Abdeslam, the sole surviving attacker. He's not mad.

Osama Krayem made a rare appearance in the prisoners' box, only to hear himself described as "uncommunicative" and "evasive".