At trial of 13-November, memory holes and “war evidence”

The interrogation of Pakistani Muhammad Usman was the occasion of an exciting debate on the validity of a video discovered by soldiers in the Irako-Syrian zone and paid to the debates.

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After a new interruption week due to a second case of CIVID-19 among the defendants, the trial of the attacks of November 13, 2015 took over, Tuesday, January 25, with the interrogation on the facts of Muhammad USMAN . At the end of four months of hearing, this Pakistani jihadist remains the great unknown of this trial. From this bald man in a shady look, we do not know everything, or almost, until his date of birth, which is always debated.

Muhammad Usman is, with the Algerian Adel Haddadi, one of two accused to have failed to join the other members of the commandos to attend the attacks of 13-November. Party of Syria with the two Iraqis who exploded in front of the Stade de France, the two men were arrested in October 2015 upon their arrival in Greece, where they were detained for a month. They had finally returned to the road, before being arrested again in Austria in December, a month after the attacks.

If he recognizes having been missioned in Syria to carry out a “violent action” in France, Muhammad Usman did not participate directly in the killing or his logistical preparation. The court stain to trace with him his career in the months that preceded the attacks. Yes, but here, from his birth to adulthood, the thread of his life is informed. The instruction did not make it possible to materialize the key moments and narrative it is done by inconsistencies and non-so-called.

“And what are you doing in Falloujah? “

The most critical shadow area concerns its activities in the ranks of the Islamic State Organization (EI) before its recruitment for its suicide mission in France. “We are a little bit in uncertainty about your departure from Pakistan for Syria and Iraq. What is the era? Request the President. This date, it will be seen, is crucial to understand its evolution in jihadist ranks .

– 2015, coward the accused

– What month?

– It was in summer …

– You talked about August 2015, and you had been told that it was probably before, April-May. Can it be considered as summer too?

– I do not know. “

Upon his arrival in Syria, at a date as summer as independence, Muhammad Usman is sent to Iraq, in Falloujah, where he would have spent “a few weeks”. “I accepted,” he lets go, without more explanation. He says she never had from Kounya, these Islamic war names yet awarded to all members of the EI. More surprising again, it ensures that it has followed neither religious formation nor military training, obliged passage for any newcomer.

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