“The intention was good”: the main suspect of the AZF group justifies himself regarding the bombs planted on the SNCF network. The case for which he is being tried broke out at the end of 2003, when an unknown group called "AZF" claimed to have buried “a series of bombs” under the ballast of railway tracks and promised to detonate them in the absence of payment by the State of a ransom of 4 to 8 million euros.
“I am manipulative but no more than anyone else,” says Michel D.