Lawyers for the main suspect in the Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, said that they will no longer defend him, speaking during a TV interview on Wednesday.
A French court charged Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam over his role in the November 2015 carnage that left 130 dead, just hours after his extradition from Belgium.
Key Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam was charged with attempted murder over a deadly shootout with police in Brussels a week before the suicide bombings in the Belgian capital.
Belgian judicial authorities approved the extradition to France of Paris attacks prime suspect Salah Abdeslam, prosecutors said, adding that a date for the transfer had not been set.
Belgian police shot a suspect as part of a huge European terror crackdown that yielded several arrests Friday as France's president said a jihadist network that targeted both Paris and Brussels was being "destroyed".
The Belgian capital was on lockdown Tuesday following deadly explosions at Brussels airport and on a metro train which killed more than 30 people and wounded over 200.
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.
Key Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam will fight his extradition to France from Belgium where he was formally charged Saturday with "terrorist murder" after his dramatic capture in central Brussels.
Police found fingerprints of Paris attacks fugitive Salah Abdeslam in a Brussels apartment raided this week, officials said Friday as authorities continued the hunt for two suspects who fled the scene.
