“We did not come out of our mothers' wombs with a Kalashnikov in our hand,”
says Mohamed Abrini.
The fourteen defendants present at the trial of the attacks of November 13, 2015 began on Tuesday to answer questions about their personality.
With this frustrating specificity of the terrorist files, recalled by the president who accommodates it very well: the
"religious engagement"
will be approached only at the time of the study of the facts, that is to say at the beginning of next year.
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At the trial of November 13, the unbearable testimonies of a night from which humanity fled
Because religion, at least the twisted vision some accused have of it, irrigates their personality.
Asked from the outset about the siblings of six children from which he comes, Mohamed Abrini proudly evokes his
"little brother Souleymane, the best of us, killed in Syria as you know"
.
We go without raising the formula to his frequentation of football clubs in Molenbeek during his childhood, his heartbreaking studies stopped at the age of 17.
It sums up:
"School failure, sports failure, checkmate."
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Attacks of 13 November: an extraordinary trial
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