Highlights: Trial of the Strasbourg attack: interrogation on the merits of the accused Audrey Mondjehi. In December 2018, the terrorist Cherif Chekatt was shot dead by the police two days after his deadly journey into the market. Four people are being prosecuted for having helped him, to varying degrees, to obtain weapons. On Thursday March 21, the Special Assize Court began the interrogation of the main accused, Audrey Mond Jehi, 42 years old today, who faces life imprisonment for complicity.

Seventeenth day of the Strasbourg attack trial. In December 2018, the terrorist Cherif Chekatt was shot dead by the police two days after his deadly journey into the market…

Trial of the Strasbourg attack: interrogation on the merits of the accused Audrey Mondjehi

Seventeenth day of the Strasbourg attack trial. In December 2018, terrorist Cherif Chekatt was shot dead by the police two days after his deadly journey through the Christmas market. Four people are being prosecuted for having helped him, to varying degrees, to obtain weapons. Thursday March 21, the Special Assize Court began the interrogation on the merits of the main accused, Audrey Mondjehi, 42 years old today, who faces life imprisonment for complicity, focusing on her links with the terrorist.

The Paris courthouse, on the Île de la Cité. AP - Thibault Camus

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Hearing report,

Laura Martel

Audrey Mondjehi's only constant point about her relations with

Cherif Chekatt

: he confirms having met him in prison in 2007. But contrary to past statements, he now maintains that he never saw him again before September 2018. “

Here's someone with whom you say you barely exchanged a hello in detention and who appears 11 years later to ask you for a weapon?

» asks the president astonished.

“

I was stupid, I made a mistake by putting him in contact with people for the weapon, I wanted to be of service, as for someone looking for a mechanic,

” says the accused, who makes the crowd jump. lawyers for civil parties, convinced, like the prosecution, that Audrey Mondjehi was close to the terrorist, and that at the end of 2018, he knew he was radicalized and dangerous. “

Not at all

”, vituperates the accused, who evokes a simple “

acquaintance

”, with whom he “

talks about nothing

” and “

holds the walls of the neighborhood

”, “

out of boredom

”.

“

And yet,

” points out the attorney general, “

the morning of the attack he was searched, he was on the run, he broke his phone and the first person he contacted afterwards was you!”

» An argument on which the defense is quick to respond: “

In fact we criticize you, Mr Mondjehi, for not having anticipated a situation that neither anti-terrorism nor intelligence were able to apprehend; since after this search, they had estimated that there was “no sign of imminent action”

Trial of the Strasbourg attack: interrogation on the merits of the accused Audrey Mondjehi

Trial of the Strasbourg attack: interrogation on the merits of the accused Audrey Mondjehi

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