Terrorist cases are a matter of memory, for both the prosecution and the defence. On May 8, the trial of Tunisian Nizar Trabelsi, accused of planning an attack in Europe, opened in Washington, for eight to ten weeks. A figure of al-Qaeda a quarter of a century ago, at the heart of a judicial scandal in Belgium from which he was extradited in 2013, this fifty-year-old is an old acquaintance of French anti-terrorism. And this since his return from Bin Laden's Afghan camps in 2001 with two of his accomplices, Djamel Beghal and Kamel Daoudi. These three alone symbolize today the variable geometry destinies of the former worshippers of Osama bin Laden, and the puzzle, for democracies, of managing veterans who look like gurus or martyrs of the cause.
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It all began on 28 July 2001, when Djamel Beghal, born on 2 December 1965, was arrested in the United Arab Emirates. Algerian arrived in France at the end of the 1980s, married to a French woman and naturalized, the man is...
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