At the trial of the November 13 attacks, the first phase of interrogation of the accused continues. This Tuesday, February 1, the court examined the relationship to religion and the possible radicalization of Yassine Atar, prosecuted for “association of terrorist criminals”, accused in particular of having held the key to a commando hideout. The younger brother of Osama Atar, the sponsor of the attacks also tried at this trial, but presumed dead in Syria, pleaded his innocence at length, saying he suffered the label of “brother of”.
“ I couldn’t wait to speak out, I’ve been claiming my innocence since day one “Launches Yassine Atar, who speaks at full speed, defends herself step by step, has the answer to everything.
The USB key and its 47 jihadist songs? ” I was a car salesman, I guess I was able to find it and bring it home without knowing it was problematic “. This SMS where he reproaches his wife for going to the swimming pool? Only this swimming pool, counter-he “ because some assholes put cameras in the locker room, they even got convicted for it “. That other message that shows him furious that a male doctor gave birth to his wife? This is what a friend had confided to him: there are two doctors there, the woman is great, the man he sucks “, he argues.
” Out of 34,000 SMS, you take out 7 or 8 and you pass me off as a radical Islamist, I don’t agree “, hammers the accused in the middle of a flood of words. ” Some in the file accuse me of “choosy”, it’s true that I talk a lot concedes Yassine Atar, who is more concise, but just as affirmative when it comes to his embarrassing family circle.
On his brother, accused of having ordered the attacks: Osama destroyed me, he destroyed my family, he destroyed himself “, he asserts. As for his cousins, Khalid and Ibrahim El Bakraoui, coordinators of the cell and future suicide bombers in Brussels, he was unaware of their radicalization. ” Like 10 of the 12 witnesses questioned in the file “, he insists, before pointing” Belgian anti-terrorism tracked them for months, listened to them thoroughly up to 3 weeks before the attacks and they found nothing! »
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