The trial of the attacks of November 13, 2015 continues before the special assize court of Paris. This Thursday, April 7, the court heard Isabelle Panou, the judge who instructed the voluminous Belgian part of the file. All the defendants passed often and sometimes for a long time in his office. A tense reunion.
With our envoy to the Paris courthouse,
” Mohamed Abrini was someone whose will to commit attacks had been established for some time. » « Salah Abdeslam’s Radicalism: Ancient, Established, Confirmed. Judge Panou was called before the Court at the request of the defence, but her outspokenness and outspokenness especially delighted the prosecution. She was already come give his opinion on the case on September 14 when the trial had just started.
The president informs him of the latest revelations: Mohamed Abrini acknowledging that he should have been part of the November 13 commandos, but speaking of a long-standing defection. ” We brought in people who crossed the whole world, the day before the attacks he is with the Iraqis armed to the teeth, there are explosives, and we are going to let him return to Brussels quietly? In a project like the Paris attacks, defection is not allowed “, she decides.
“He is with an explosive belt in the heart of Paris: the act of participation, he is there”
On Salah Abdeslam who claim to have given up on blowing themselves up : “ He activated, he did not activate… He is with a belt of explosives in the heart of Paris: the act of participation, it is there. On Yassine Atar, about whom a Belgian policeman, the day before, recognized that nothing in the file did not make it possible to materialize aid provided to the terrorist cell : “ We are not used to holding in preventive detention people for whom there are no clues. I’m not going to take them all back, otherwise I’m going to ask for a glass of water because we’ll have it for a while. On the bench of the accusation, we exult. So when after more than three hours of hearing the word reached the defense, the atmosphere was tense.
“You would have come with a little more humility”
Martin Vettes, lawyer for Salah Abdeslam, speaks of a “ Back to the future “. ” We have the impression to hear you that nothing has happened in the last seven months. I regret that you did not attend the hearings, because you would have seen the flaws in the Belgian investigation. The gaping flaws. You would have come with a little more humility. The good humor of Judge Panou has faded, the questions are more pointed, the magistrate less affirmative. ” I delivered my testimony, it likes it or it doesn’t “, she finally let go, annoyed. ” You give your assessments on the indices “, answers Christian Saint-Palais, lawyer for Yassine Atar. ” We are here in the period of evidence. »
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