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Colombes attack: “He had two obsessions: to take action and go to paradise”

2024-03-12T11:25:56.003Z

Highlights: Youssef T., 33, has been appearing since Monday before the Special Assize Court in Paris for the car-ramming attack of April 27, 2020. He only went to the mosque during Ramadan. Except for the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda, he is not aware of any other Islamist terrorist groups. “I sincerely regret what I did. I hurt the victims, society, my family. I tarnished his name,” he says of his alleged attacker, who was killed in the attack.


Youssef T., 33, has been appearing since Monday before the Special Assize Court in Paris for the car-ramming attack of April 27, 2020.


He only went to the mosque during Ramadan.

He read the Koran as a teenager “to know at least what is in it”.

Except for the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda, he is not aware of any other Islamist terrorist groups.

And when the president of the Special Assize Court asks him bluntly if he is radicalized, the answer is clear: “Me?

Nooo.

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But it is him, Youssef T., whose trial opened before the Special Assize Court this Monday in Paris, who is being prosecuted for the Colombes attack, committed in April 2020. A car attack -ram which very seriously injured two national police motorcyclists and which the accused admitted at the opening of the proceedings.

“Yes, I recognize that I am the author of the facts,” begins Youssef T., round face, brown hair cut short, his body enveloped in a slight overweight.

Afterwards, I sincerely regret what I did.

I hurt the victims, society, my family.

I tarnished his name.

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Source: leparis

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