The coronavirus continues to disrupt the trial of the attacks of November 13, 2015. After a suspension of a few days due to the Covid-19 infection of the main defendant, Salah Abdeslam, the trial will not resume until January 25 due to the contamination of another defendant.
In a message sent Monday morning to the lawyers, the president of the special assize court of Paris, Jean-Louis Périès, writes that the result of the PCR test to which Ali El Haddad Asufi was subjected “turned out to be positive” and that “the coming week is totally compromised”, a new “useful test” that cannot be carried out until next Friday.
A short hearing should however be held Tuesday noon to see this situation, according to a source familiar with the matter.