Sid Ahmed Ghlam, 29, is on trial from Monday alongside nine other suspects.
He is accused of having wanted to commit an attack in a church in Villejuif, in April 2015. An attack which he did not give up until after having killed a young woman, Aurélie Châtelain.
A terrorist with a confused speech in the box of the accused.
Sid Ahmed Ghlam, 29, accused of wanting to carry out an attack in April 2015 in a church in Villejuif, is on trial from Monday in Paris, along with nine other people.
The man had finally given up on this attack, after killing a young woman, Aurélie Châtelain.
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A suspect "on file S" by intelligence
That Sunday, the young Algerian could have committed carnage: an assault rifle attack in full mass, in a church in Villejuif.
But nothing went as planned.
In still unclear circumstances, Sid Ahmed Ghlam, radicalized, "stuck S" by intelligence, crosses paths with Aurélie Chatelain, a 32-year-old mother, who came from the North for a fitness course.
He shoots her dead in his car.
With the same gun, the terrorist, affiliated with the Islamic State group, injured his leg.
He abandons his plan to attack and calls Samu, before being arrested by the police, who discovers his arsenal.
"He understands that he has been 'bewitched'"
For the past five years, Sid Ahmed Ghlam has denied being a murderer, but partly takes responsibility for the rest.
"He recognizes that he was to participate in a planned attack, that he had received instructions in this direction, and at the last moment, he understands that he was 'bewitched', that is his term", explains at Europe 1 his lawyer, Jean-Hubert Portejoie.
"And Sid Ahmed Ghlam deliberately shoots himself in the thigh to avoid having to commit bloodshed," he continues.
A version that did not convince the investigating judges, but that Sid Ahmed Ghlam will support before the special assize court.