The trial of Sid Ahmed Ghlam, which opened on Monday, is a bit of a Daesh manual.
A rare opportunity to detail how, after having recruited them, the Islamic State (IS) remotely guided its killers in 2015. And this in the presence not of ghosts, like Coulibaly or the Kouachi brothers, or of a mute accused, as will probably be Salah Abdeslam, but of a man of flesh and blood, accused of having, on April 19, 2015, attempted to commit a massacre in a church and of having murdered a young woman, Aurélie Châtelain.
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A concentrated man, with short hair and a gray woolen waistcoat, visibly ready to defend himself tooth and nail.
And pugnacity, it will take this former computer science student of Algerian nationality.
First, because the facts, recalled by the president, are overwhelming.
We discover to what extent the accused was in constant contact, via the internet, with his ISIS sponsors.
Constantly asking them for details, awaiting their indications.
Sometimes curling
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