The Bataclan and residents of Saint-Denis recognized as “victims of terrorism”

More than 2,600 people, survivors or relatives of the 130 dead and hundreds of people injured in the attacks of November 13, as well as legal persons, have become civil parties to the criminal trial which ended on June 29 after ten months. of debates. Nearly 50 civil party applications were deemed inadmissible. Among them, the municipalities of Paris and Saint-Denis, which had invoked material and image damage.

This Tuesday, the judges however accepted the constitutions of civil parties of a large number of direct or indirect victims, in particular the companies managing the Bataclan, the inhabitants of a building in Saint-Denis and the various cafe terraces machine-gunned by the jihadists on November 13. The admissibility of the company managing the Bataclan hall and the inhabitants of a building in Saint-Denis partially destroyed during a police attack during which two members of the jihadist commandos were killed, were among those previously disputed by the Public minister.

Abdeslam responsible for the damage caused by the explosion

The court finally admitted a causal link between the offenses for which certain defendants were convicted and the damage resulting from the police attack and the explosion on November 18, 2015 of the explosive vest of Chakib Akrouh, holed up in a building in Saint -Denis with the operational chief of the commandos Abdelhamid Abaaoud. Consequently, the owners and tenants of this residence in Seine-Saint-Denis who claimed recognition of their victim status and who justified their presence on the premises at the time of the events are declared admissible.

For these facts, the court declared Salah Abdeslam and 12 of his former co-defendants civilly responsible. All of the final convicts are jointly and severally liable to repair the damage caused to the civil parties on November 13, 2015.

Salah Abdeslam, the main defendant in the trial of the attacks, was sentenced to life imprisonment four months ago. The other 18 defendants had been found guilty.