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Iranian diplomat on trial over planned attack refuses to appear for trial

2020-11-28T16:20:51.648Z


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. Read also: An Iranian diplomat tried in Belgium for a planned attack near Paris The hearing could continue without him, with only his three alleged accomplices. Assadollah Assadi, 48, presented as the coor


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.

Read also: An Iranian diplomat tried in Belgium for a planned attack near Paris

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.

Source: lefigaro

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