Between the light wooden walls, the benches in the major trial room of the Paris Court of Appeal were once again full.
Seven days after the verdict of the Trèbes-Carcassonne attack, the trial of that of the Strasbourg Christmas market (Bas-Rhin), which left 5 dead and 11 injured on December 11, 2018, opened this Thursday and for five weeks before the specially composed Assize Court.
Many victims, families of the deceased and injured, were present - 208 people became civil parties at the hearing.
As is customary, the floor was given for the first time by the president to the four accused.
The only one to be tried for terrorist offenses, Audrey Mondjehi, a 42-year-old Ivorian, finds himself well isolated in the box.
Massive build, hairless head on a white shirt, the ex-friend of the author of the crimes, Chérif Chekatt, a 29-year-old radicalized repeat offender, formulates his position as follows: “I went to the police station myself.
I would never have known that this weapon was going to be used in an attack,” he said awkwardly before lowering his head, overwhelmed and contrite.
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