Tuesday, the Belgian investigator No. 440 232 779 sent in three quarters of an hour the course of Salah Abdeslam.
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It is time for the trial of the attacks of 13-November to go to the next chapter. The one who is written right now, and must end on Thursday, December 9, plunges day after day the hearing in boredom and mediocrity, without advancing the debates. It has been near two weeks that succeed on the screens of the Belgian investigators’ room evoking, from Brussels, the course of terrorists and accused until August 2015 – the weeks leading up to 13-November will be addressed from February 2022.
Family, radicalization, departure in Syria, return to Europe: These presentations often duplicate with previous depositions, they are soporific because read in a single voice, and are generally superficial. Lawyers – Defense and Civil Parties – rushes in every inaccuracy, every hesitation, every silence to mislead the investigators and stir the knife in the wound of the incurity and the naivety of the Belgian police services in this story.
The feeling of discomfort inspired by these presentations peaked on Tuesday 7 December with the investigator n o 440 232 779, come ship in three quarters of an hour the course of Salah Abdeslam – Which still refuses to attend the debates, to protest the anonymity and the use of videoconference granted to these witnesses that we understand that they have preferred the storm of the hearing.
Weaknesses on the form
Malaise on the form first: to the antipodes of spontaneous oral testimony in effect on Assises, 440 232 779 read a word for a text that it seemed to discover; Its purpose was illustrated by a childish animation PowerPoint – a small aircraft from a Turkish flag to a Dutch flag to serve a flight from Istanbul to Amsterdam; He talked about ten times “airports” from Zaventem and Schiphol. The first time, it generated some laughs in the room. The tenth, just an embarrassed silence.
These weaknesses on the form would be anecdotal if they did not reflect an indigent background. After the topo already known about the youth of Salah Abdeslam and its relations with the other accused, we have learned less on its radicalization than on the inability of the Belgian police to detect it, failure symbolized by the hearing of February 28, 2015 at the Commissioner of Molenbeek.
One month earlier, his brother Brahim, Kamikaze from the Voltaire counter, made a stay in Syria. The police were informed that Salah Abdeslam had also had severe vellities. But facing them, reads the investigator 440 232 779, the latter “disputes any project of this kind”, evokes “trips to Spain and Morocco to vadrier and live at home”, and minimizes its friendly and ideological links with Abdelhamid Abaaoud. Conclusion of the hearing PV: “He has no outer sign of radicalism, whether in his dress, his physical look or his words.”
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