The trial of the attacks of November 13, 2015 continues before the special assize court of Paris. The court now looks at the days preceding the attacks in Paris and Saint-Denis and the departure of the commandos.
From our envoy to the special assize court of Paris,
Methodically, the Belgian investigator details the events of the days preceding the fateful date of November 13, 2015. November 8: the money that will be used to rent cars and apartments in the Paris region is deposited in Salah Abdeslam’s bank account. November 9: the Abdeslam brothers rent the three vehicles which will be used to transport the commandos from Belgium to France. November 10: Ibrahim Abdeslam and Mohamed Abrini make a first round trip to rent a house in Bobigny.
The convoys of death
The next day, the members of the cell procured fourteen telephone lines: six would be used by the coordinators of the attacks, who remained in Belgium, probably the Bakraoui brothers, experienced in the methods of gangsters. The other eight will be used by the various commandos, the ” authors as the investigator says.
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The same day, Salah Abdeslam and Mohamed Abrini go back to France and pay for two hotel rooms in Alfortville, still in the suburbs of Paris. On November 12, the terrorists meet in two of the cell’s hideouts.
Between 3:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m., the cars loaded with weapons and explosives, the “ convoys of death », to use the expression of Mohammed Abrini, are heading towards their disastrous destiny. During her presentation, the Belgian investigator evokes the videos of the surveillance cameras then posed in front of the home of the young Belgian.
” If these videos had been exploited, we wouldn’t all be in this room. »
As of October 2015, Mohammed Abrini was indeed the subject of a judicial inquiry which bears the curious name of ” Brioche “.
Belgian justice suspects him of wanting to go to Syria and wants to monitor his associations. Images that will only be used after the attacks of November 13. Me Olivia Ronen, Salah Abdeslam’s lawyer, can only express her disappointment: ” If these videos had been reviewed in time, we would have been able to see that Mr. Abrini was hanging out with radicalized people, and we wouldn’t all be here in this room. It could have avoided a lot of things. »
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