Special envoy to Avignon
With his hands behind his back, in his gray tracksuit, Ilias Akoudad would like the court to see him as a calm and placid young man.
During his detention, this is what he told the psychiatric experts who detailed his personality, on the first day of his trial for the murder of brigadier Éric Masson before the Vaucluse assizes.
While he faces life imprisonment, the boy with the thin mustache, who always denies the facts, works to erase anything that could stigmatize him with the jury.
At the Avignon court, the police came in large numbers.
Frédéric Veaux, the director of the national police, also came for the first day of the hearing, where two of Akoudad's associates are also being tried for the related offense of concealment of criminals.
“Thank you, Mr. President
, ”
“on this subject, I have nothing to add, Mr. President,”
repeats over and over again, in a courteous voice, Ilias Akoudad, including two licensed practitioners – a psychiatrist and a psychologist –…
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