Jean-Baptiste Marty // Photo credit: Amaury Cornu / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP 6:45 a.m., March 1, 2024
Second day of the Strasbourg Christmas market attacks trial.
Four men appear before the special criminal court in Paris.
They are suspected of helping Chérif Chekatt, the Islamist terrorist, to have obtained the weapon with which he coldly killed five people on December 11, 2018. The trial therefore opened on Thursday, with civil parties coming in large numbers .
Second day of the Strasbourg Christmas market attacks trial.
On December 11, 2018, five people were shot by Islamist terrorist Chérif Chekatt.
In a packed room of the special criminal court of Paris, pressed against each other, the civil parties remain silent.
Anxiety, but above all emotion, overwhelms them when the accused appear.
Four men appear before the special assize court in Paris
Three of them appear free.
The last one is in the dock.
He is the only one to be prosecuted for criminal association of a terrorist nature, because he is suspected of having helped Chérif Chekatt to obtain his weapon.
The man of Ivorian origin stands up, gives his identity: “Audrey Mondjehy, born in 1981, former bouncer at a nightclub”.
Then, he sits down again, he will be at the heart of the debates.
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On the evening of the attacks, Clarisse crossed paths with Chérif Chekatt, armed in the streets of Strasbourg.
She is waiting for explanations: "It is thanks to this weapon that five people left, including a father with three children who must grow up without it. And it is very difficult."
The first explanations must be delivered this Friday morning, with the story of the terrorist's macabre journey.