As a kid, in Molenbeek, he was nicknamed "Brioche".
Later, thug, drinker and reveler, it was “Brinks”.
In the end, a jihadist who briefly passed through Syria, Mohamed Abrini had become "Abu Yahya".
The Paris Assize Court is trying to understand the journey of this 37-year-old man, childhood friend of Salah Abdeslam, present in Paris with the Daesh commandos a few hours before the attacks of November 13, 2015, then in Brussels, with other suicide bombers, a few minutes before that of Zaventem airport, in March 2016.
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“Abu Yahya”, who faces life imprisonment, is a lucky Islamist: he survived all the carnage.
Unlike his younger brother Souleymane, who fell with arms in hand in the combat zone in 2014 - a trigger for Mr. Abrini, who then fell into radicalism:
“My little brother died there, I am proud of him. "
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Light shirt, tan complexion, he calmly exposes his conception of religion - the debates, which opened on September 8, 2021, finally arrived on Tuesday ...
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