If there is one defendant whose explanations we wanted to hear, it is Mohamed Bakkali.
Of the fourteen individuals who have appeared since last September in the trial for the attacks of November 13, 2015, this beefy man with a shaved head is the one who uses the most precise vocabulary.
Arrested in Belgium, close to the two terrible El Bakraoui brothers – suicide bombers in the Brussels airport and metro attacks in March 2016 –, sentenced to 25 years in prison for his alleged participation in the Thalys attack (he did appeal), he studied sociology in prison.
His criminal record is clean, which is a singularity in the box.
Read alsoWhat silences and lies say at the trial of the November 13 attacks
Only here: Wednesday, at the opening of the hearing, while President Périès questions him on his conception of religion, the intellectual of the file answers:
“I am not able to answer your questions.
I had another trial
[the Thalys]
, I had a lot of hope, I explained myself at length, and I had...
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