On the second day of his interrogation before the Paris Court of Paris, the friend of the Brothers Abdeslam had entangled his explanations on his trip to Syria and his role in the period that preceded the attacks.
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On the second day of his interrogation, Mohamed Abrini had two opponents: the instruction file and himself. He stopped against the fortress of the first and hit his own walls. The accused, however, should not answer, on Wednesday, January 12, that a very short period of his biography, between early April and mid-August 2015. Four months and a half, a trip and a lot of embarrassing questions.
When he leaves the Belgian Forest Prison on April 2, Mohamed Abrini has only one idea in mind, joining Syria. The project goes back to the fall of 2014, at the announcement of death in the fight of his little brother Souleymane, who had enlisted in the troops of the Islamic State Organization (EI) under the orders of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the Future operating manager of the attacks of 13 November 2015.
“My little brother was the cause of my repentance,” he explained the day before the Assize Court. On the occasion of a first release, in September 2014, the offender specializing in the burglaries and the future spouse who kept that episodic relations with religion had rocked into radical Islam, feeding on videos of propaganda alongside his childhood friends, Brahim and Salah Abdeslam.
Reincarcerated from December 2014 to April 2015, it only reads “only one book, the Koran”. In June, he thus flew from Brussels to Istanbul, equipped with all the necessary contacts to win Rakka, the capital of the EI in Syria. From there, everything is complicated.
Coincidences weighing heavy
On the reason for this trip, Mohamed Abrini has stopped repeating the same thing. “I wanted to get me on the grave of my little brother.” He always had, “he said,” the intention of coming back “and had his ticket back in his pocket. During the two weeks of his stay, he finds his friend of Molenbeek, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, and shares the apartment of another future Kamikaze, Najim Laachraoui, the artificer of the attacks of Paris, who will be exploded on March 22, 2016. Brussels Airport.
With the first, he ensures, the discussion only carries “on what he did, that is to say, humanitarian aid, fighting … He explained to me the course of My little brother, how he was killed … “. With the second, he does not speak “of nothing”. Mohamed Abrini accepts the mission entrusted to him Abaaoud, return to Brussels, via a detour by England to recover a sum of money. “3,000 pounds [3,600 euros],” he says.
“You are sure it was 3,000? It seems a bit ridary, raises the president.
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