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Paris terror suspect still refuses to talk: report

Xinhua, November 29, 2016 Adjust font size:

The surviving terror suspect behind the Paris attacks Salah Abdeslam on Tuesday again refused to testify on a series of suicide bombings and shootings in November 2015, local media reported.

Abdeslam appeared before anti-terror judges for a new hearing but exercised his right to silence, refusing to respond to questions on his role in the attacks, the news channel BFMTV said.

In mid-October, he refused to talk to protest constant camera surveillance and monitoring.

Abdeslam was captured in March during a counter-terrorism raid in Molenbeek in the Belgian capital of Brussels.

A month after he was transferred to France. He has been put in solitary confinement in a high-security prison of Fleury-Merogis under 24-hour video surveillance in his cell.

Investigators suspect him of having provided logistics for a group of armed men that stormed and killed people in restaurants, a theater hall and a soccer stadium in the French capital last year.

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the terror attack. Endit