A French court artist stares into the eyes of an Islamic State militant


  • World
  • Thursday, 30 Sep 2021

French court artist Elisabeth de Pourquery poses with one of her artist's sketch showing Salah Abdeslam, one of the accused, who is widely-believed to be the only surviving member of the group suspected of carrying out the Paris' November 2015 attacks, at the temporary courtroom set up at Paris criminal courthouse for the trial of Paris' November 2015 attacks in which 130 people were killed and 400 more injured, in Paris, France, September 27, 2021. Picture taken September 27, 2021. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

PARIS (Reuters) - French court artist Elisabeth de Pourquery stared intently into the eyes of the self-avowed Islamic State militant and fixed an image she would capture for posterity.

Separated by a glass screen, she sat just a few feet from Salah Abdeslam, suspected of being the lone surviving member of a commando of suicide bombers and gunmen who killed 130 people in a series of coordinated attacks on Paris in November, 2015.

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