At the trial of the Trèbes attack, the bad “presentiment” of the terrorist’s relatives

On March 23, 2018, the cities of Carcassonne and Trèbes (Aude) are in turmoil.

In the morning, a terrorist kills a man and seriously injures another at a homosexual meeting place before shooting at riot police and then going to the Super U where he assassinates an employee, a customer and police officer Arnaud Beltrame.

At midday, the hostage-taking at the supermarket was still in progress and the name of the attacker, Radouane Lakdim, was not yet known.

But in the friendly and family circle of this 25-year-old unemployed person who will be neutralized by the GIGN, doubt immediately arose.

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With more or less frankness, the witnesses who have followed one another before the specially composed Assize Court of Paris since Tuesday January 30 paint the portrait of a radicalized young man of whom they had not, however, perceived the imminence of a passage to the act.

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