October 12, 2016 2:22 PM

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France: Paris attacker's lawyers resign

In France, lawyers for the only known survivor of a group of Islamist militants today resigned from the role, saying his continued refusal to testify was due to the conditions of his detention. The suspect, Salah Abdeslam, killed 130 people in Paris last year. Abdeslam held in a solitary confinement near Paris since he was captured earlier this year, does not want to talk and no longer wants legal representation, his lawyers Frank Berton and Sven Mary said on BFM Television.<br/><br/>Berton said that Abdeslam is refusing to talk because of the 24-hours-a-day camera monitoring in his high-security jail conditions which the lawyers have repeatedly tried and failed to get changed. Abdeslam's Belgian lawyer Sven Mary said the solitary confinement is causing Abdeslam to clam up. Abdeslam was captured in Belgium and shipped to France earlier this year.

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