For several weeks, debates go on the definition of “radicalization”. A Belgian official shared his field expertise on Thursday.
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What is “radicalization”? It has been several weeks since the trial of the attacks of 13-November tries to dissipate the fog that surrounds this notion. The definition of this concept escapes since the beginning of the charges of the accused on their relationship to religion, early January. For the main actors of this file, whose involvement in the attacks does little doubt, the stake is first intellectual. On the other hand, it is crucial for the “second knives”, the boyfriends who have, at one time or another, made accomplices of their actions.
Two of them were questioned, Thursday, February 3, by the Paris Special Assize Court. Hamza Attu and Ali Oulkadi appear free. These two smokers of compulsive joints, originating in the municipality Brussels de Molenbeek, are not radicalized. But they frequented the begins, the coffee of their friend Brahim Abdeslam, a Kamikaze of 13-November, in the months that preceded the attacks. And both responded to the call of his brother Salah, the day after attacks, to help him from Cavale.
Would their friendship with the Abdeslam brothers had to allow them to guess the danger they represented before being embedded in this terrorist file? Hamza Attou, Dealer de Shit Atticted Beguins, assured having never detected the slightest sign of radicalization at Brahim: “For me it was not radical, on the contrary, I would even say that he was not practicing. He did not even pray. “To believe this portrait, it is not in his religious fervor that the killer of the East Paris terraces has drawn up his motivation.
Ali Oulkadi remembers that Brahim Abdeslam watched jihadist videos on his computer in the cafe, in view and the Su of all, and kept unpleasant remarks about the disbelievers. Not enough to waver? inquires the court. “It’s unfortunate, but it’s a bit trivialized to Molenbeek, we hear that often. He could keep a radical comment, then put music by singing and smoking a joint. It was inconsistent in fact, we do not did not take it seriously because his acts contradicted his words. “
Definition attempt
How to interpret this hiatus between radicality of speech and absence of religiosity? A colossus enters the courtroom. Olivier Vanderhaegen wears a huge beard and a haircut difficult to describe, borrowing from the samurai and Viking. This 45-year-old Belgian official was, six years old, “Mr. Radicalism” of the municipality of Molenbeek. He was cited as a witness by the Defense of Hamza Attou to share his field expertise, which will prove to be a great help to dispel the ambient fog.
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