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Trial November 13, day 4: a policeman recounts a night of chaos

2021-09-13T18:06:52.463Z


REPORT OF THE HEARING - A former executive of the anti-terrorism services described the fever that seized investigators in the confusion of the attacks.


The young commissioner makes you dizzy.

Not only because he speaks too quickly, nor because he testifies in front of the assizes under the pseudonym of “SDAT 99”, which guarantees his anonymity.

But, when this former executive of the anti-terrorism sub-division (SDAT) recalls the context of the attacks of November 13, 2015, we tremble when we discover the extent of the threat and the cold sweat it gave to the intelligence services.

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"Fifty-two investigations were opened at Sdat between December 2014 and September 2015"

, notes the witness.

On the evening of November 13, from the Stade de France to the Bataclan, ten men sowed death.

Salah Abdeslam, who has been silent since

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Source: lefigaro

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