Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam is 'behaving well and has not been causing any trouble' say staff at the prison where he is held 

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Paris terror attack suspect Salah Abdeslam is 'behaving well' and spends most of time reading and sleeping in his prison cell. 

Abdeslam is now in the hands of the French authorities after being extradited from Belgium where he was arrested over the attacks in the French capital which claimed 130 lives.

He was charged with murder, association with a terrorist group, possession of weapons and explosives as well as sequestration over the hostage-taking at the Bataclan concert hall where 90 were killed.

Paris terror attack suspect Salah Abdeslam (left) is 'behaving well' and spends most of time reading and sleeping in his prison cell. He was extradited to France from Belgium where he was arrested in Brussels in March(right)

Security forces leave the Palais de Justice in Paris where ISIS massacre suspect Salah Abdeslam (unseen) faced investigating magistrate after he was extradited to France from Belgium

Prison director Nadine Picquet revealed that Abdeslam has been an 'easy inmate to deal with' and 'has not been causing any particular trouble'.

'For the moment, he sleeps a lot. He's resting. He reads,' she said, according to Sky News.

The failed jihadi's lawyer Sven Mary recently described him as a 'moron from Molenbeek' with 'the intelligence of an ashtray'. 

Mr Mary gave a lengthy interview to Jean Quatremer at Liberation newspaper describing the difficulty of representing such an infamous client.

'There have been moments when I thought of giving up. If I had known about the Brussels attacks, maybe I would never have taken this case,' Mary said.

He described his client as a 'little moron from Molenbeek, more a follower than a leader. He has the intelligence of an empty ashtray. 

'He is the perfect example of the GTA (Grand Theft Auto video game) generation who thinks he lives in a video game.

'I asked him if he had read the Koran, and he replied that he had looked up what it meant on the Internet.'

He said the attacks suspects should be judged by an 'international criminal court. These people committed war crimes.'

Mary said he had spoken to Abdeslam seven or eight times and he still was unsure how he had ended up radicalised. 

Defence: Frank Berton, a high-profile French criminal lawyer, said he would lead Abdeslam's defence

Frank Berton, main lawyer of Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam, arrives  at the Paris courthouse last week

Security was tight when Salah Abdeslam was extradited from Belgium to France to face trial

A heavy police officer escort was used to move Salah Abdeslam from Paris to prison in Belgium

Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam is now residing at the Fleury-Merogis prison (pictured)

'A year and a half ago he was clubbing in Amsterdam. The only explanation I can find is that it was internet propaganda that gave the impression that Muslims were unfairly treated,' he told Liberation.

Mary blames Paris prosecutor Francois Molins for his client's silence since he was first questioned.

Molins revealed the contents of the interrogation to French journalists, and Mary has filed a complaint against him for doing so.

'I think Salah Abdeslam is of capital importance to this investigation. I would even say he is worth gold. He cooperates, he communicates,' Mary said. 

Abdeslam's lawyer Frank Berton said that investigating judges charged him with murder, association with a terrorist group, possession of weapons and explosives as well as sequestration over the hostage-taking at the Bataclan concert hall where 90 were killed.

Berton said his client was not interrogated at length.

'He explained to judges that in light of the hour he was removed from the jail (in Belgium) this morning, he prefers to explain himself later, but insisted that he will explain himself,' said Berton.

High security: A police officer stands guard at the Palais de Justice at the 36, Quai des Orfevres where Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam appeared before the investigating magistrate in Paris

Abdeslam has been put under formal investigation by French magistrates and will have another hearing over his role in the November 13 attacks on May 20

Another hearing has been set for May 20, the veteran lawyer said, adding that his client was being held in the sprawling Fleury-Merogis prison complex outside of Paris.  

Abdeslam, 26, was Europe's most wanted fugitive until his capture in Brussels on March 18 after a four-month manhunt. 

His capture in March came four days before separate suicide bomb attacks by Islamist militants at Brussels international airport and on a metro train which killed 32 people. 

Investigators say Abdeslam told them he had arranged logistics for the November 13 bombing and shooting attacks in Paris and had planned to blow himself up at a sports stadium there but backed out at the last minute.

He is suspected of having rented two cars used to transport the attackers to, and around, the French capital. 

Abdeslam's elder brother Brahim, with whom he used to run a bar in the Brussels district of Molenbeek, was among the Paris suicide bombers, blowing himself up at a cafe.

Salah may have been the 10th man referred to in an ISIS claim of responsibility. Police found one abandoned suicide vest in a Paris suburb.

Abdeslam had been held in a prison in the Belgian town of Bruges. 

Last week, he was charged in Belgium over a shootout with police in an apartment in southern Brussels in which his fingerprints were found days before his eventual arrest.

Belgian police have arrested a number of Abdeslam's associates, including Mohamed Abrini, who are wanted over the Paris attacks and also a suspected Brussels attacker.