BRUSSELS ¨C The lawyer defending the prime surviving suspect for the Nov. 13 Paris attacks said on Sunday he would sue a French prosecutor for divulging his client¡¯s admission that he had planned to blow himself up with fellow Islamic State militants.
Speaking two days after Salah Abdeslam was captured during a police raid in Brussels, his lawyer, Sven Mary, accused the lead French investigator of violating judicial confidentiality.
¡°I cannot let this pass,¡± Mary told Belgian state broadcaster RTBF. Mary¡¯s office was not available for comment, but RTBF said he would start legal proceedings on Monday.
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