here in the court room is very nice but you don t know it is like back there. i haven t said anything for six years because of the sale treatment because i know when i die i will be reborn and you will face a day of reckoning. directing that at the court at which the president said salah abelslam this is a court of law that ecclesiastical tribunal. it gives you a kind of flavour between the salah abelslam, the key defendant and the court. it s going to be a very long process, this trial. and what we will see over the next few days is not much we can report on because it will be procedure and all the parties being given their accounts later on. we are in for the long haul here but it s already interesting to see how salah abdelslam, this key defendant seems to be shaping up as someone who is prepared to take on the court and very much defend his role as a soldier of islamic state. i and very much defend his role as a soldier of islamic state. soldier of islamic state. i think ou are so
let s get more from our correspondent hugh schofield, who s in paris. what s happened at the trial this afternoon? it what s happened at the trial this afternoon? ., what s happened at the trial this afternoon? what s happened at the trial this afternoon? ., . ., ., afternoon? it got under way around lunchtime after afternoon? it got under way around lunchtime after a afternoon? it got under way around lunchtime after a short afternoon? it got under way around lunchtime after a short delay. - afternoon? it got under way around lunchtime after a short delay. as i lunchtime after a short delay. as was inevitable the defendants were brought in one by one into the box is all there in lucy s package in a specially constructed courtroom. a moment of small trauma when salaam was asked to identify himself and give his profession. he gave his name and then said his profession, soldier of islamic state. later in factjust a soldier of islamic state. later in fact just a few soldier of isl