The 34-year-old Belgian is suspected of being one of the logisticians of the attacks. During his personality interrogation, he mentioned before the Court his childhood in “a united family”, his drift in delinquency and his prison isolation.
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The interest has awakened slowly, it has become more and more lively, curiosity has sharpened and has not denied. What does it work? No doubt the ease and the subtlety of the expression. In this particular way of listening to the questions, the face both concentrated and open, and to the care of each of the answers. Wednesday, November 3, Mohamed Bakkali, 34, suspected of being one of the logisticians of the attacks of November 13, 2015, revealed a personality who already traded with those of the first five accused, like him, to unfold The thread of their biography in front of the Paris Special Assize Court. Sentenced to twenty-five years of criminal imprisonment in the Thalys case, where he is accused of having conveyed the main author of the attack, Ayoub El-Khazzani, and his contractor, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, Mohamed Bakkali has always proclaimed his innocence. He appealed. “Your criminal record is virgin,” says President Jean-Louis Perès.
Mohamed Bakkali was born in 1987 in Verviers, Belgium, Moroccan parents who immigrated in the late 1970s. First worker in a sawmill, his father settles in his account by opening a body. The family lives in a pavilion outside the city, with a garden. “A united family, a nice place,” said Mohamed Bakkali. I played football, there was the municipal library, I read a lot. “At home, we speak Berber and the six children are raised in the respect of the Islam. “I have never drank alcohol, never played at the casino”, spontaneously specifies the accused, as if to distinguish himself from the tormented youth of several of his neighbors of box, of which Salah Abdeslam.
Stays in Cairo and Istanbul
Every summer, the family joins the village of Rif, whose parents are from. From this happy period that lasts until his 13 years ago, he said, “nostalgia”. In adolescence, his studies become a little more chaotic.
“What happened? He asked the President.
– It does not necessarily happen something … “
Mohamed Bakkali wins his professional baccalaureate and works at the body with his father. “That’s where I started learning Arabic, talking with customers.” He launches in parallel with the recycling of metals, then in counterfeiting. “Clothes, watches, sneakers, perfumes, I sold in half-big.” One of his associates is then Khalid El Bakraoui, who will like his brother Ibrahim the suicide attacks of March 22, 2016 in the subway and the airport from Brussels.
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