Seventeenth day of the Strasbourg attack trial. In December 2018, terrorist Cherif Chekatt was shot dead by the police two days after his deadly journey through the Christmas market. Four people are being prosecuted for having helped him, to varying degrees, to obtain weapons. Thursday March 21, the Special Assize Court began the interrogation on the merits of the main accused, Audrey Mondjehi, 42 years old today, who faces life imprisonment for complicity, focusing on her links with the terrorist.
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Hearing report, Laura Martel
Audrey Mondjehi’s only constant point about her relationships with Cherif Chekatt : he confirms having met him in prison in 2007. But contrary to past statements, he now claims to have never seen him again before September 2018. ” Here is someone with whom you say you barely exchanged a hello in detention and who appears 11 years later to ask you for a weapon? » asks the president astonished.
“ I was stupid, I made a mistake by putting him in contact with people about the gun, I wanted to be of service, like for someone looking for a mechanic » says the accused, who makes the lawyers of the civil parties jump, convinced, like the prosecution, that Audrey Mondjehi was an intimate of the terrorist, and that at the end of 2018, he knew him to be radicalized and dangerous. “ No way “, vituperates the accused, who evokes a simple “ awareness ”, with whom he “ don’t talk about anything ” And “ holds the neighborhood wallsr”, “ out of boredom “.
“ And yet, points out the general advocate, on the morning of the attack he was raided, he was on the run, he broke his phone and the first person he contacted afterwards was you! » An argument on which the defense is quick to respond: “ In fact, we criticize you, Mr Mondjehi, for not having anticipated a situation that neither anti-terrorism nor intelligence were able to apprehend; since after this search, they estimated that there was “no sign of imminent action” », Points out his lawyer Me Wacquez.