Wednesday 2 February, the defense of the younger brother of the alleged attorney of 13 November 2015 marked points by denouncing the manufacture of a “guilty by substitution”.
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When Mustapha Benattal advanced, Wednesday, February 2, at the witness bar, we must recognize that attention was a little relaxed. Of an uncle of accused, after a sister of accused, both cited by the defense at the trial of the attacks of 13-November, who made 131 dead and more than four hundred victims, we did not expect much .
We were all the less vigilant that the accused in question, Yassine Atar, rather pale on the side of some of his box neighbors. The day before, during the first part of his interrogation, we had the impression of attending a banal correctional court hearing at a “historic” criminal trial. Bavard, a bastard, Yassine Atar spoke so fast, heats up so much on the accessory as on the important thing, that even the president of the Court, Jean-Louis Rireosed, seemed to exhaust him to listen to him. “I am a real pipelet,” apologized the accused.
From this confusing advocacy, however, surnew a fixed idea: Yassine Atar owed his presence in the box as his parent bulky. He is the younger brother of Osama Atar, alleged sponsor of the June 13, 2015 attacks, given for death in Syria in 2017, and judged in the absence of this trial. It is also the Germain cousin of Khalid and Ibrahim El Bakraoui, chief logisticians of the cell, who exploded in the subway and at Brussels airport on March 22, 2016.
A “convicted by substitution”, had summed up his sister. No, he said, he did not talk about Syria or the Organic State Islamic State (EI) with his brother Osama, when, after ten years of absence, including six detention in the abu prison claim Ghraib, in Iraq, this one had returned to live a few months, in 2012, at his mother, in Brussels, before flying back to Syria, via Turkey, in the fall of 2013.
Mustapha Benattal, a formidable control
No, assured with the same yassine atar vigor, he did not really perceive the sudden radical rocking of his two cousins, incarcerated in these years 2012-2013 for bloody turmoil when he accompanied Oussama, who made them visit to the parlor. And above all, no, it has never been seduced by the radical theses, its way of life being on the contrary the node of a conflict with its elder.
Faced with his denials, the Prosecution clung to some SMS found among thousands of others – in which Yassine Atar seems to look after the strict respect of the dogma with his sisters – and a USB key discovered in his car, whose investigators exhumed audios calling at Jihad. But at the end of the day, it already emerged the impression that this voluble car salesman, good living and small offender in the trafficking of narcotics, did not really present the profile of a man that would have initiated the secret of An operation aimed at committing attacks in France.
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