At the November 13 trial, Osama Krayem, suspected of having planned an attack at Amsterdam airport on the evening of the Paris attacks, "
assumes the fact that he must be condemned, even severely, but only for what 'He committed
,' his lawyers pleaded on Monday, June 20.
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The national anti-terrorist prosecutor's office has requested life imprisonment with a 30-year security period against the 29-year-old Swede, tried for "
complicity
" in the attacks which left 130 dead in Paris and Saint-Denis, and which remained almost silent throughout the trial.
"
Osama Krayem did not participate in the preparation of the Paris attacks
", underlined his Belgian lawyer Gisèle Stuyck, recalling that, according to the prosecution, his client was "
intended for another project which, in the event that he existed, did not actually happen
".
"It was not planned for Paris"
"
We do not sentence a man to life imprisonment for an attack committed in territory A (in France, editor's note) when at that time he was in territory B (the Netherlands)
", a insisted Me Stuyck.
Former Islamic State (IS) fighter, identified in an unsustainable propaganda video showing the execution of a Jordanian pilot burned alive in a cage in Syria, Osama Krayem will be tried from the fall in Brussels for the attacks of March 2016 in the Belgian capital.
The one who gave up at the last minute to blow himself up in the Brussels metro admitted his participation in these attacks for which he also faces life imprisonment.
“Osama
Krayem is above all the man of the Brussels metro, not of Paris.
We must remain consistent and fair
, ”said Me Stuyck.
“
He was not in the decision-making sphere, he does not have an important place in the cell, he has no direct contact with the sponsors
” who were preparing the attacks in France, listed the lawyer.
“
It was not planned for Paris
”, summed up his colleague, Me Margaux Durand-Poincloux.
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She joked about the accusation of “
complicity by digital reinforcement
” reproached to her client, a “
smoky theory
” according to her.
By going to Schiphol airport in Amsterdam with his co-accused Sofien Ayari, he helps the members of the cell "
to be more numerous elsewhere
".
Osama Krayem "
lived in the heart of the cell
", but must be sentenced for criminal terrorist association, punishable by twenty years in prison, pleaded his lawyers.
They recalled that without the collaboration of Osama Krayem during the investigation, "
the file would not be what it is today
".
Do not consider it "
it is not only nonsense, heresy, but also an error.
It is to deprive yourself of the possibility of resolving other cases
, ”warned Me Stuyck.
Defense arguments continue in the afternoon.
