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This Monday, September 23, opens in front of the court of seat of Paris the so-called trial of "gas cylinders", an attempt of attack in the night of September 3 to 4, 2016 in the district of the cathedral Notre-Dame and which could have been dramatic. A car containing six gas cylinders and diesel cylinders is discovered, stopped in full lane. The alleged perpetrators clearly failed to fire the vehicle in time to trigger the explosion. Eight people are accused in this case including six women.
There are two absent at the opening of this trial : one of the young women, Amel Sakaou, extracted from his cell, refuses to appear in court. The chair interrupts the hearing after only a few minutes. Despite the intervention of a bailiff, she is still absent from the recovery. Two officially appointed lawyers will represent her. The other great missing is Rachid Kassim, considered the brains in this case. He is the subject of an arrest warrant but he probably died in Iraq with a drone strike, according to US intelligence.
Recruitment via internet
It is he who would have advised - at a distance - Ines Madani, 19 years old at the time, one of the main defendants, inciting him to pretend to be a man, to seduce and recruit via the Internet an accomplice. Together, they planned and led the attempted bombing in the Notre-Dame district of Paris.
Radicalized young women
It is also he who put Ines Madani in contact with other young women, now in the box of the accused, to foment other attacks. Ines Madani not wanting to stay on a failure. It is indeed one of the peculiarities of this trial, that of six young women , radicalized who did not know each other for the most part, and who did not even live in the same region. Their common point: the desire to participate in violent action and Rachid Kassim.
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