“I am truly sorry for causing this torment. I will never do that kind of stupidity again.”
Michel D., 76, stands in front of the president of the court, in Paris, this February 15.
His shoulders drooping in his fine crimson knit sweater, he sways a little.
As if stunned by the defense pleadings which were ending, he clasped his large hands behind his back.
On the third day of their trial with Perrine R., 61, the mastermind of the “AZF group” and his incredible blackmail operation against the public authorities no longer has a good word to say about his ransom demands from the State, or his two bombs found under railway tracks.
Michel D. had good words, however, during these three days of hearing.
He described, always courteous and in twisted sentences, how the “AZF group” blackmailed the State from December 2003 to March 2004. He was portrayed sometimes as an intellectual, sometimes as a reader of novels and a writer. .
The man is charismatic,…
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