Paris attacks suspect refuses to answer judge's questions

Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving key suspect of Paris attacks of last November, remained silent on Thursday during a questioning over France's worst terror assaults, his defence lawyer Franck Breton said.

During a second appearance before anti-terror judges, Abdeslam has exercised his right to silence refusing to respond to the questions on his role on the fatal attacks which left 130 victims, according to Berton.

"There's a hope that he will speak to the judges. But it won't be today," he was quoted as saying by local media.

At his first hearing in May, the 26-year-old man refused to say anything about the attacks as he refused to be watched 24 hours a day, according to the defense lawyer.

Transferred from Belgium to France in April, Abdeslam is now in solitary confinement and kept under permanent camera surveillance inside his cell in a high-security prison in Fleury-Merogis, south Paris.

Investigators suspect him of having providing logistics for a group of armed men that stormed restaurants, theater hall and soccer stadium in Paris in Nov. 2015. Endit