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Trial of the January 2015 attacks: "You are a man, take responsibility for your actions"

2020-12-03T11:59:15.321Z


The main defendant, Ali Riza Polat, who says he is suffering from the consequences of Covid-19, was expelled from the hearing after several incidents.


Pale, but not devoid of energy.

After a month of suspension of the trial of the January 2015 attacks, the main defendant, Ali Riza Polat, reappeared this Wednesday in the box, alongside his ten other co-defendants.

According to a forensic expert in infectious disease, the 35-year-old man no longer presents symptoms of Covid-19, contracted in detention in October.

Any debate on a possible presence by videoconference, authorized by a timely order of the Ministry of Justice, then rebutted by the Council of State, is therefore evacuated.

While the pleadings of the civil parties in this trial must continue, the hearing resumed this Wednesday morning with a sharp analysis of Ali Riza Polat's medical diagnosis.

His lawyers have repeatedly called for a thorough medical examination that would take into account his "genetic fragility".

Civil parties side, Me Méhana Mouhou rather believes to see an "imaginary patient" who "dramatizes and takes hostage a historical trial".

"I think we are in a case of simulation […] He will make himself vomit in a while, surely pass out," he predicts.

"Insult to victims"

"You are a man, take responsibility for your actions", launches Me Sacha Lanquette during his plea, before describing these police custody which take place "every day in any police station" and during which suspects "assume and explain themselves ”:“ We were far from that in this trial […] I was ready at the beginning to consider these individuals as common criminals.

For many of them, their attitude was edifying ", notes the lawyer for the family of Ahmed Merabet, a police officer killed by the Kouachi brothers, who criticizes" the selective amnesia "of the eleven accused and denounces an" insult to the victims ".

“Maybe all the people who should be accused are not in the box, believes Me Sacha Lanquette, but that does not necessarily clear those who are there.

"

The lawyers of the civil parties call for serving "the rule of law" and "not the state of weakness", recall the history of terrorism, sometimes in an interminable lesson of global geopolitics.

“As with the drug trials when we judge the mules: where are the importers, the Pablo Escobars of terrorism?

We never find them, argues Me Emmanuel Ludot, counsel to the employee of the Villers-Cotterêts service station held up by the Kouachi brothers during a halt during their run.

The decision-makers in Yemen will never be found in court.

"

Other lawyers remember the "dignity" of the relatives of the victims and that of the members of the police force who "watched at the cost of their bodies, their souls".

The cruelty of the acts committed in January 2015 resurfaced before the Assize Court.

"I just vomited bile, I have nothing in my stomach!"

But Ali Riza Polat remains true to himself.

Interrupting a lawyer at the bar, the main defendant cracks when he is brought back from the toilet: "I just vomited bile, I have nothing in my stomach!"

"Let me out, I don't give a damn about those salads!"

"With authority, President Régis de Jorna warns him:" You are silent!

I will kick you out if you intervene again while a lawyer is arguing.

"At the beginning of the afternoon, his lawyer, Me Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, demands that a general practitioner examine his client:" With the budget for the trial, I think that we can pay ... "But the pleadings continue.

Shortly before 3 p.m., Ali Riza Polat seems to be spinning his eye in the box.

He's stretching.

The hearing is suspended and the accused stands up quickly, to leave with his escort.

This does not escape the president of the Assize Court.

A few minutes later, at the resumption, Régis de Jorna “Mr. Polat, we saw how quickly you got up when we announced the suspension […] It is an attempt to disrupt this trial and this attempt will lead to the expulsion if it happens again.

"Like a doctor to his recalcitrant patient, the magistrate scolds:" If you are in this state, it is because you refuse to take your treatment.

This trial must and will continue.

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A little later, Ali Riza Polat claims: “I want to go outside or downstairs.

Otherwise, I'll lie down here […] You've been lying from the start, ”yells the detainee, who ends up being taken on by the police escort.

Ali Riza Polat is expelled from the hearing.

Source: leparis

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