“I want to kill so much, it’s a sick thing.
» The spiral notebooks in which young Leïla poured out her thoughts before her arrest tell the story of a drift.
That of a neglected child who slowly abandoned cartoons for videos of mutilations, toys for bombs, classmates for jihadist and neo-Nazi friends, and hobbies to plan killings.
On April 4, 2021, she was arrested when the DGSI foiled her planned attack: attacking the faithful of a church in Béziers (Hérault) on Easter Day, with a saber.
This Thursday, this 21-year-old brunette, referred to the Paris criminal court for “association of terrorist criminals with a view to preparing several crimes”, is questioned.
“It’s so as not to think about what’s happening at home,” explains Leïla, her voice thin, barely audible, when the president asks her about her own literature.
On April 4, 2021, the police discovered the family home in Béziers.
A slum littered with trash bags, insulting graffiti on the walls, pots crawling with maggots and excrement on the floor.
“It is certain that your writings are much more positive”, comments the magistrate, visibly distressed, before reading a notebook belonging to Leïla: “(…) My desire is becoming more and more intense and if this continues I will go down in the street, below, and slit the throat of the first passer-by, drag his corpse to the forest and smash his skull with an iron bar or a hammer.
Then go back and get someone else, hit them in the back of the head and slit their throats, I learned how to slit their throats so there probably won't be any problems.
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