Gwladys Laffitte, edited by Solène Delinger 6:16 am, January 12, 2022
While the trial had taken a false start last week, it finally resumed on Tuesday with the first interrogations of the defendants, in particular on their radicalization.
The first to be questioned, Mohamed Abrini, "the man in the hat" of the Brussels attacks, and the eleventh supposed man of the Paris and Saint-Denis attacks, justified the attacks before the special Assize Court.
Salah Abdeslam being cured of Covid-19, the trial of the November 13 attacks has finally been able to resume for good.
A moment expected because the first phase of interrogation of the defendants on the merits of the case opens.
It is the childhood friend of Salah Abdeslam, the Belgian Mohamed Abrini, who is the first to be questioned, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Justification of the attacks
"The man in the hat" of the Brussels attacks is suspected of having been the eleventh man of the Paris commandos, before turning back.
On Wednesday, he will be questioned about his activities in Syria in 2015, but on Tuesday, the court first questioned him about his radicalization and his view of religion.
A vision still very radical since the accused justified the attacks in Paris, which they qualify as a "response to the violence" of the war in Syria.
According to him, "failing to have a soldier killed on the spot, we carry out attacks", he explained, very calmly, at ease, standing in the glass box, while specifying that he was not not capable of participating in an attack.
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"Islam not compatible with democracy"
This vision of things, Mohamed Abrini has not always had. Before 2014, he was not a practitioner, he partied, committed crimes, went to prison regularly, then his little brother died in combat in Syria. He then espouses the jihadist cause, transforms himself, learns religion "in books and on the internet, as an autodidact". He also has a mark on the forehead sign of an assiduous practice of prayer.
In 2015, he went to Syria, and, even today, justifies jihad: "It's part of Islam, that as practiced by the prophet is not compatible with democracy," he said. assumed.
When President Périès asked him his opinion on Sharia law, Mohamed Abrini, again, did not evade anything: "For you it is radical, for me, it is divine law above the law of men. If I were a free man today I would go and live in a country where Sharia law is applied ".