The trial of participants in the November 2015 terrorist attacks on Paris’s Bataclan theater began today (WaPo) and is set to continue for at least eight months. Twenty suspects have been charged, but only one of the alleged direct perpetrators is due to be physically present in court.
Italy: Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi spoke by phone with Chinese President Xi Jinping (Reuters) yesterday, Draghi’s office said. They discussed the crisis in Afghanistan and bilateral cooperation ahead of an upcoming Group of Twenty (G20) summit.
Trial for 2015 Bataclan Attacks Begins in Paris
French Gendarmes escort a convoy understood to be transporting Salah Abdeslam, the prime suspect in the November 2015 Paris attacks, upon its arrival at the Palais de Justice of Paris - Paris' courthouse, on September 8, 2021, for the start of the trial of the November 2015 Paris attacks' defendants. - The biggest trial in France's modern legal history begins on September 8, 2021 over the November 2015 attacks on Paris that saw 130 people killed at bars, restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall. The suicide bombing and gun assault by three teams of jihadists, planned from Syria and later claimed by the Islamic State group, was France's worst post-war atrocity. (Photo by Thomas COEX / AFP)