Between Clint Eastwood and lawyer Me Sarah Mauger-Poliak, the affair does not date from yesterday.
Responsible for defending Ayoub El Khazzani, the terrorist from the failed Thalys attack perpetrated in 2015, she continued to attack the director of
3:17 p.m. for Paris
because his film was released well before the trial, which will have take place from November 16 to December 18.
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Thus, the name of Clint Eastwood is part of the list of 41 witnesses and 9 experts summoned to the hearing.
To be precise, the director of
Gran Torino
is expected on Monday, November 23 in the afternoon to review the attitude of Alek Skarlatos, Spencer Stone and Anthony Sadler, the three young Americans who intervened in the face of the terrorist of Thalys.
Because after having thought of hiring real actors, Eastwood opted for another solution, to make interpret by those who lived them the scenes which reproduce the attack of the Thalys.
On France Inter, the defense of the main accused, the lawyer Me Sarah Mauger-Poliak, explained his request:
"This quote seems all the more important since the American soldiers, and it is regrettable, did not show up for the reenactment organized by the justice system when they spent months replaying the scene in front of the Hollywood projectors
".
The 90-year-old filmmaker is unlikely to move
Let us come back precisely to the facts.
On August 21, 2015, Ayoub El Khazzani, a 25-year-old Moroccan, boarded the Thalys Amsterdam-Paris at Brussels station.
The scenario is known.
He took with him a Kalashnikov, nine magazines, a pistol, a cutter and gasoline.
As the train crosses the French countryside, it comes out shirtless from the toilets of wagon 12, weapons in hand, ready to commit a terrorist attack ... Three young Californians on vacation, one of the 560 passengers, will intervene, avoiding a massacre.
The three friends are decorated with the Legion of Honor by François Hollande and received in the Oval Office by Barack Obama.
The case is causing a stir.
Clint Eastwood is interested and decides to make a film.
He takes hold of the story even before the trial takes place.
The attack is reconstructed in real time.
But Eastwood as always is not interested in heroism.
He is fascinated by ordinary people who are able to do extraordinary things.
In February 2018, during the 3:17
p.m.
exit
for Paris
, Me Sarah Mauger-Poliak asked for his postponement, highlighting the problem posed for his defense of a man condemned in advance.
She returns to battle a few weeks before the trial.
Will we see Clint Eastwood at the helm?
American citizen, Clint Eastwood cannot be the subject of a "warrant of arrest", ordering the police to bring him by force to the bar.
The 90-year-old filmmaker, who is currently preparing a new film, called
Cry Macho
, is unlikely to move, as the Covid-19 pandemic resumes.
But he could be heard by videoconference.