Trial of the Strasbourg attack: “He already had in mind to attack France at the end of 2014”

He places the camera on a chair.

Sits on the floor, back to the wall.

“I pledge allegiance to Caliph Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi

(leader of the Islamic State organization, killed in 2019 in the Iraqi-Syrian zone)

.

I respond to the call to strike the disbelievers, members of the international coalition.

You, the

kouffars

, you will regret it,” threatens Chérif Chekatt.

Thin mustache and beard collar, orange t-shirt over black pants, the young man, his head surrounded by a red and white keffiyeh, delivers his text in an atonal voice.

Broadcast during the trial of the Strasbourg attack (Bas-Rhin), this 2 minute 55 minute video showed for the first time within the Paris Special Assize Court the face of the author of the massacre of 11 December 2018 during the Christmas market (five dead, eleven injured).

Found after the attack, in a USB key left in this almost empty studio in the Neudorf district, its date was set at mid-November 2018.

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