Eight key moments from historic trial over Paris terror attacks in November 2015
The biggest trial in France's history is expected to deliver a verdict on Wednesday.
Salah Abdeslam and 19 other men are in the dock over the country's worst peacetime attacks, which happened in Paris on 13 November 2015.
They are accused of playing critical roles in the gun and bomb attacks that left 130 people dead and 350 injured across the French capital.
The trial has taken 10 months and involved more than a million pages of evidence, so here are some of the pivotal moments.
Nearly six years after the attacks at the Bataclan concert hall, Stade de France stadium, bars and restaurants, the trial got under way amid heightened security.
The hearings took place in a room specially built for the occasion in a former courthouse in Paris. At the opening, experts estimated the trial should last nearly nine months, an unprecedented length for a criminal hearing in France. It has actually lasted 10 months.
The court was trying 20 defendants, including Abdeslam, allegedly the only member of the attack commando group still alive.
The 32-year-old said he wanted to testify that "there is no God apart from Allah and that Mohamed is his messenger," adding that he has been "treated like a dog" in custody.
"It's a provocation, we expected it and in actual fact we're expecting absolutely nothing," Dominique Kielemoes, whose son was killed in the shootings at the bar La Belle Equipe, said outside the courtroom.
Over the trial's first weeks, an overview was given of the sprawling Franco-Belgian investigation and the first evidence collected at the attack crime scenes.
One testimony, in particular, stood out: that of the first policeman to arrive at the Bataclan concert hall.
The attack saw 89 people killed as Kalashnikov-type assault rifles
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