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“Under your bed there is a shovel!” : the absurd defense of two Americans tried in Paris for assassination attempts

2022-05-12T18:24:38.935Z


REPORT OF THE HEARING – At the “Americans” trial, the interrogation of the two defendants brought to light the severe paranoia that nourished this confusing mother-son duo.


In the booth, when June Hopkins isn't talking, she simpers.

A long braid goes down her neck, she has a mischievous smile, powdered cheekbones.

The 60-year-old American converses with her translator, nods in agreement with her son's answers.

When she speaks on the other hand, the tone flies away, the delivery is rapid, often intertwined with the words of her translator.

At his side, his son Brendan Walsh-L.

has a pale complexion like his shirt, a broad forehead under which lodges a ringed look.

She is in her element, in representation, he is irritable during his interrogation and absent from the rest of the debates.

A confusing mother-son duo, accused of the worst.

Both have been appearing since Monday in Paris for a double assassination attempt on the former companion of the first and father of the second.

This Thursday, the son repeated that he had only protected his mother.

She lost herself in the most fanciful explanations.

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Source: lefigaro

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