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Agence France-Presse

The main Paris attacks suspect, Salah Abdeslam, has become even more radicalised since being imprisoned for his alleged role in the killing of 130 people a year ago, his former lawyer has said.
“He’s got a beard, he’s become a true fundamentalist whereas before he was a kid wearing Nike trainers,” Belgian lawyer Sven Mary told Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant.
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Belgian-born French national Abdeslam is believed to be the only surviving attacker of the November 13 assault on the French capital that Belgian authorities claim were orchestrated by Islamic State’s high command.
After four months on the run, the 27-year-old of Moroccan origin was arrested in Brussels in March and subsequently transferred to France in April.

Lawyer Mary said Abdeslam’s detention conditions at a prison in the Parisian suburb of Fleury-Merogis amounted to “psychological torture” and had contributed to his apparent radicalisation.
He is kept in solitary confinement and subjected to round-the-clock video surveillance.
Abdeslam is accused of having provided logistical support to the seven extremists who died at the various scenes of the attacks: the Bataclan concert hall, the Stade de France national stadium and several bars and restaurants in central Paris.
In July, his lawyers tried unsuccessfully to end the constant surveillance, but authorities deemed the “exceptional character of terrorist acts” as justifying that “all precautions are taken”.
Last month both Mary and another lawyer, Frank Berton, gave up defending Abdeslam over his refusal to answer investigators’ questions since being transferred to France.
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Mary said then that the lawyers felt they were doing nothing more than paying “social visits to the prison” and had decided to quit the defence.
Abdeslam’s brother Mohamed last month urged him to speak to French authorities but also said he felt Salah “is more radicalised now, rather than de-radicalised”.


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Armed Belgian police apprehend Salah Abdeslam, one of the main suspects in the Paris attacks. Photo: Reuters

This handout picture released in a "appel a temoins" (call for witnesses) by the French Police information service (SICOP) on November 15, 2015 shows a picture of Abdeslam Salah, suspected of being involved in the attacks that occured on November 13, 2015 in Paris. Islamic State jihadists claimed a series of coordinated attacks by gunmen and suicide bombers in Paris on November 13 that killed at least 129 people in scenes of carnage at a concert hall, restaurants and the national stadium. AFP PHOTO / POLICE NATIONALE RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / POLICE NATIONALE " - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

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