Trial of the January 2015 attacks: Peter Cherif wallows in silence

Peter Chérif during his arrest in Djibouti, December 16, 2018. Houssein Hersi / AFP

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The supposed sponsor of the attack on Charlie Hebdo ended up testifying Friday, October 23 at the trial of the January 2015 attacks before the special assize court.

Forcibly taken to the videoconference room of Fresnes prison, the veteran of al-Qaeda, arrested in Djibouti in December 2018 when the investigation was closed, was heard as a simple witness and refused to explain himself despite everything .

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With our special correspondent at the Paris courthouse,

Peter

begins by speaking in Arabic, then he continues in French his blessings and his proselyte speech.

“ 

 ” he said.

The

ends up asserting that it has nothing to do with

then wallows in silence.

He then begins to read what looks like a Koran, while

try to ask him questions.

The jihadist will not say anything more: nothing about his links with the Kouachi brothers, childhood friends;

nothing on

 and the jihadist network of Buttes-Chaumont;

nothing either on his probable meeting with Chérif Kouachi in Yemen, in the summer of 2011. The hearing will have lasted about twenty minutes and will not have served much.

Indicted in a separate part of the investigation into the attacks of January 2015, Peter Cherif could once again be held accountable to justice.

The investigation is currently still in progress.

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