Salah Abdeslam's lawyer is trying to dismiss claims that his client was the mastermind behind November's ISIS attack in Paris by mocking Abdeslam's intellect, Associated Press reports.
He has "the intelligence of an empty ashtray," he told the French paper Liberation, adding that Abdeslam was a "little jerk among Molenbeek's little delinquents, more a follower than a leader."
Abdeslam is being charged for his involvement in the attacks that left 130 people dead.