At the trial of the attack that cost the Father Hamel, the accused Yassine Sebaihia told the night that he has passed with the two terrorists two days before their passage to the act, of which he assures nothing had known.
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On July 24, 2016, at a time when the sun begins to lie down, Yassine Sebaihia arrives in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray (Seine-Maritime). Party of Toulouse The same morning in carpooling, it went through Paris, from which it was returned by train to Rouen. He joins Adel Kermiche for, he ensures, follow “religion courses” between young people. At his descent of the tramway, no one is there to wait for it. It’s a good half hour walk to the home of the one who, two days later, murdered, with his accomplice Abdel-Malik Petitjean, Father Hamel in the church of his commune, before being both killed by the police.
Yassine Sebaihia, 21 years old at the time, is one of the last people to have seen both terrorists before the attack. He spent a night in their company before leaving for Toulouse from the 24th of July in the morning, explaining to feel “undesirable”. What did they talk about? Why this departure suffered? The Accused Yassine Sebaihia has never changed in his statements, since his arrest in August 2016 until Thursday, March 3 in the Paris Court of Special Assize: “I did not even have any idea. had something related to a hijra (departure in Syria) or an attack. Otherwise, I will not be here “. The Chairman, the general lawyer, lawyers of the civil parties tried to extract an admission, a brisk of new information. Without success.
caught by Syria and his horrors
The young man, who looks like a gaston lagaffe with his abundant hair that falls on his eyes, his jeans and his white sweater, was in 2016 a kind of “geek” addicted to the screens and asocial. He does not work, dropped his studies. Syria and its horrors caught it, Islam in its radical version of interest. He spends his time on Twitter, YouTube and Telegram to follow jihadist accounts, including ADEL Kermiche. His fiancée is tired, she leaves him. On July 20, Kermiche announces on Telegram his project to give courses to the mosque for young people and to set up a “Katiba” (Fighters Group) on the Sharia4belgium model.
On July 23rd, after an argument with his mother, Yassine Sebaihia decides to join Kermiche in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray. On arrival the next night, Kermiche explains that he can not receive him at his home but he will see him later. It is Petitjean who welcomes him and takes him to a park. Quickly, the current does not pass more: Petitjean reproaches Sebaihia not to pray correctly, to attend a girlfriend without being married religiously and listen to music.
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