An Iranian diplomat called to appear in Antwerp, Belgium for a planned attack on a rally of opponents of the Tehran regime in 2018 near Paris, refused on Friday November 27 to appear at trial.
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The hearing could continue without him, with only his three alleged accomplices.
Assadollah Assadi, 48, presented as the coordinator of this attack thwarted by Belgian justice, "
considers that he should benefit from diplomatic immunity and that the court is not authorized to judge him
", justified his lawyer Dimitri de Béco in front of the press.