The attacker from Paris is defending himself by remaining silent, the prosecution is asking for 20 years in prison

Terrorist Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving member of the jihadist group that carried out the November 2015 attacks in Paris, refused to answer questions today and challenged the court at the opening of the Brussels trial where he and an accomplice are on trial for shooting police officers in March 2016. Previously, the prosecution requested 20 years in prison for both. Abdeslam said at the beginning of the interrogation that he would not answer "any questions". "My silence does not make me guilty or a criminal, it is my defense. I am not afraid of you, I am not afraid of your allies, I believe in Allah and that is all," said the Frenchman of Moroccan origin, adding that Muslims "are judged and to be treated in the worst way, mercilessly". He then said he was "exhausted". Federal prosecutor Katlin Grožan previously requested 20 years in prison for Abdeslam and his accomplice Sofijan Ajari, accused of shooting at police officers in the Brussels district of Fore on March 15, 2015. That is the maximum prison sentence for that crime. On March 15, 2015, Abdeslam, Ajari and Algerian jihadist Mohamed Belkaid opened fire on police officers during a routine check in the Fore district. On that occasion, three police officers were wounded, and Belkaid was killed while covering the escape of his friends. "The police officers were faced with a real scene from the war. It's a miracle that there were no dead among them," said Grožan. Abdeslam and Ajari were captured three days later in the Brussels district of Molenbeek, and their arrest is considered by police to be the trigger for the attacks on March 22, 2016, when three suicide bombers detonated themselves at the Brussels airport and in the subway. The trial in Brussels is just a prelude to the trial that will be held in France for the attacks in which 130 people lost their lives.