In front of the Assize Court, Friday, Yamina B. evoked the thesis “of the terrorist drug or witchcraft” to explain the acts of his son, Abdel-Malik Petitjean, one of the authors of the attack.
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It is rare, in trials for terrorism, that the families of the authors admit to having aware of the radicalization of the accused or the attack killed by the police. The relatives of Abdel-Malik Petitjean, heard on Friday, February 25 by the Assize Court specially composed of Paris, did not derogate from the rule. But it is even more rare that they present themselves as the main victims, like the mother of the one who murdered the priest Jacques Hamel in his church of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray (Seine-Maritime), the July 26, 2016.
Abdel-Malik Petitjean, who was 19 years old at the time of the facts, is also the one who gave four knife shots to Guy Coponet, an old parishion present at Mass, leaving him for death for the duration of the catch hostages, just over an hour. His mother Yamina B., 55, describes him as “an angel, a kid who knew nothing, who was naive, very naive”. “They killed her,” she says. Who they ” ? ” The villains “. It is barely to appoint them, except Farid Khelil, the cousin of Abdel-Malik, who appears in the same trial for “Association of Terrorist Croplers” but not for complicity. Yamina B. refers to the attack by “the problem there”.
In fact, Yamina B. did not come to talk about his son, but from her. If his son is a terrorist, she is a monster: impossible. “All the moms who have raised their child with love, like a goan mom like me, they can not think about that,” she answers when asked if she had detected the radicalization of her son. “I know my son it was manipulated. Here, point bar!” She assists. Later, she advances the thesis “of the terrorist drug or witchcraft” in front of an forbidden courtroom.
“My son It has been manipulated. Here, point bar!”
When the president points out that the same morning at this bar, Lina S., the cousin of Abdel-Malik Petitjean, had felt that the whole family and the neighborhood were aware of his radicalization, or that his companion At the time had sent a message to his eldest daughter Linda in June to alert him on his son’s drift, she cuts: “All the people you quote me, they have problems”. It deny themselves to be aware of his son’s missing attempt to leave in Syria in June 2016: upon their arrival at Istanbul airport with Jean-Philippe Steven Jean Louis, the two young men had been expelled to the Switzerland from where they had embarked.
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