Paris attacks suspect Abdeslam 'will not fight extradition'

[Surya Gayatri]

Source: BBC News

Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam has changed his mind and will not fight extradition from Belgium to France, his lawyer says.

Salah Abdeslam is one of the key suspects in November's Paris attacks which left 130 people dead.

He was arrested and wounded in a police raid on Friday in Brussels.

On Tuesday, suicide bombs in Brussels killed 31 people. The attacks are thought to be linked to the Paris attacks network and Abdeslam's arrest.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35889305

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Perhaps he believes that he'll get a fairer hearing in France, what with the current uproar in Belgium.

I just pray that they can keep him alive and well long enough to be able to extract any actionable intelligence he may have.

[Bad Dog]

1. I'm sure they will keep him alive and well long enough.

To serve a substantial jail sentence. This isn't America. We don't torture in Europe.

[Surya Gayatri]

2. It's not a question of torture, but of skilled interrogation techniques.

And, the French are really good at it.

FYI, I'm a dual-national (Franco-American), living in France for 30+ years. I'm so thankful to be here and not there.

The US is my country of birth, but I no longer recognize it in its present form.

[Bad Dog]

3. I'm not American either.

I'm English.

[Surya Gayatri]

4. .../...

[Bad Dog]

5. If you're ever in the mood to pop on a Ferry.

And visit the South Coast, let me know.

[Surya Gayatri]

6. From Dieppe to Newhaven? I've taken it numerous times to spend the day in Brighton.

I used to have a "pied à terre" in Le Tréport, just up the coast, so it was easy.

Send me a PM with your "coordonnées", if you're serious...

I'm recovering from a broken hip at the moment, though, so my movements are still limited. LOL!

I spent a short-break holiday in Dieppe at the end of October, just days before my accident. It's perhaps the most "British" of French ports, while still quintessentially French.

Such great seafood!

Will you be voting "IN" or "OUT" about the EU?

[Bad Dog]

7. Newhaven is not too far.

I'm in Southampton, we used to have a ferry that went to Cherbourg, now I think they all go via Poole or Portsmouth.

I'll be voting to stay in. Leaving is a no brainer, the No camp tend to be rich industrialists, bigots or geriatric Little Englanders who are quite racist in their own right.

[maxsolomon]

15. Looks pretty much the same around here. I think you'd recognize it.

Same assortment of idiot conservatives and sane liberals. The media is really hyping the GOP crazy train - but nothing essential changes.

The food has gotten much better in the last 30 years, at a minimum.

[B2G]

8. Really...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_during_the_Algerian_War_of_Independence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_torture_since_1948#United_Kingdom

[Bad Dog]

11. Yes really

You have to go all the way back to the Mau Maus. As for individual soldiers they were prosecuted, unlike the big torture factory Guantanamo Bay. We abandoned torture a long time ago. Dubya reintroduced it and one of your presidential candidates, Trump, is advocating bringing it back, only more severe.

Stick to what's going on in the here and now, not stuff from around 50 years ago.

[B2G]

12. Really...

https://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/human-rights/no-torture/uk-complicity-torture

[Bad Dog]

13. It's still a lot better than America.

A country that still carries out the barbaric practice of capital punishment.

[Sunlei]

14. He was involved more in the France attack, and didn't know much about Brussels 'planned' attack.

They must have got some names/locations from him because the manhunts seemed to make the Brussels bombers act faster. They knew they would be caught soon according to the 'will' found on the suicide bombers computer he had put in the trash.

One of my friends has a family home in Brussels, everyone she knows is ok except one friend was at the airport and is in hospital, he lost his leg.
She has cried some over the horror of it all but is more angry, and anger at her government for letting known criminals, known 'troublemakers' who came in from countries like Turkey and live freely in the EU, in her home town Brussels and free to travel anywhere in the EU.

They need to get a handle on about 3,000? people many who can't be found now. I think the French and Belgium authorities will work together and get all those 3,000 people out of the EU society and be more careful in future who they let into the EU.