Sven Mary will not defend Abdeslam in Paris: “I pass for terror trial. For my two children” | Inland

“Of course it has gnawed,” he says of his decision to stay away from the trial that starts on September 8 in Paris. That process will take eight months and concerns the attacks in, among other things, the Bataclan concert hall and several Parisian cafes. 130 people were killed and more than 350 injured. “For a criminal lawyer, that trial is the Champions League final,” Mary says. “But I’m not going to do it. I decided that this month while on holiday in Spain. It was a deliberate decision. Abdeslam is now also aware. I wrote him a letter to inform him of my choice.”

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