At trial of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, an accused lost in his contradictions

Farid Khelil, cousin of one of two terrorists, risk thirty years of imprisonment. He formally disputes that he was aware of the Hamel Father Attack.

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Farid Khelil speaks a lot. Too much. We get lost and he too. This 36-year-old nancean was the first of the three accused at the trial of the Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray (Seine-Maritime) trial to be asked about the facts, Wednesday, March 2nd. He is reproached for him, as to the other two, not a participation in the assassination of Father Jacques Hamel, on July 26, 2016, but a “Association of Terrorist Croplers” with the two authors, Abdel-Malik Petitjean and Adel Kermiche, killed As soon as they leave the church by the police.

Khelil had contested the facts that are reproached for him at the opening of the trial. On Wednesday, he explained to recognize the “criminal association”, while discussing the terms: “It’s complex” association “, it implies that I was aware that I agreed.” Gold. He has continued to defend himself of being aware of the attack on the priest of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray. “It’s been six years that I’m waiting for me to be asked,” he cried at the bar with reference to his remand. “I can more when we try to make me say that I knew he was going to kill the priest.” It is appropriate: “I understand that there is a doubt.”

Farid Khelil knew one of the two terrorists, his cousin Abdel-Malik Petitjean, but not the other. He knows one of the two other accused, Jean-Philippe Jean Louis, but not the other, Yassine Sebaihia. He corresponded with the fourth accused, Rachid Kassim, activist of the Islamic State Organization (EI) in Iraq, instigator of the attack and presumed dead in 2017 in an air strike.

A player

Long-bunny hair and black jacket, Farid Khelil is a player who smokes cannabis, drinks, has unbridled sex life, both with women and men. It is not religious but is gnawed by the lack of interest of his father, a traditional Algerian who has not high, and a lack of identity legitimacy. “I had the ass between two chairs”, summarizes the one who does not know the Arabic or make his prayer.

Heavyweight driver, he properly earns his life, has three children, two with his wife, an Algerian cousin married in 2010. But in 2015, he divorces, his wife blamed him for marital violence and his infidelities. And he loses his job when his transport company is relocated.

On the occasion of the burial of an uncle, he meets, early 2016, his young cousin, Abdel-Malik Petitjean, 19, who impresses him. Pious in excess, he does not drink, does not smoke, speaks all the time of Syria. He also has desires: in May 2016, he speaks to leave in Libya to a boyfriend.

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