Two accused surveyed Thursday, Osama Krayem and Sofien Ayari, refused to express themselves. Many questions will probably remain unanswered at the end of the debates.
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The more the evening of the 13-november is getting closer, the more the floor moves away. The hearing follows the chronological course that will lead the discussion until the evening of the attacks, the thirst for explanations grows on the banks of the civil parties, but in the box of the accused, the silence is spreading.
The Paris Special Assize Court was interested in the routing and concealment of the commandos in Belgium and questioned, Thursday, March 17, Osama Krayem and Sofien Ayari in this regard. Parties to fight in Syria in the ranks of the Islamic State Organization, sent together in Europe to commit attacks, this Swedish and this Tunisian today aged 29 and 28 had rallied Ulm, Germany, where Salah Abdeslam had come Recover them on the night from October 2nd to 3rd, 2015 to drive them in Belgium.
On the conversations during this trip, on the platen they have occupied, what they did and the people they crossed there, on the degree of knowledge that each other of the terrorist project, many questions. The ace. These two accused, Thursday, only spoke to warn that they would remain silent, and the President of the Court, Jean-Louis Rireosed, asked his questions in the void.
“Have of hope, it’s dangerous “
We suspected that Osama Krayem would not say anything: early January, in a letter read by his lawyer, he announced that he would now keep the silence, believing that this trial was an “illusion”, and that “person [ was] here to understand “. The hope existed, on the other hand, to obtain answers from Sofien Ayari: during a first examination, at the end of January, he had long explained the reasons for his departure in Syria. This time he preferred to shut up. “It’s your right to remain silent,” said the president, “that’s my duty to remind you that it may be in your interest to answer. If you change your mind, do not hesitate to do it to us Knowing. “Sofien Ayari has not changed his mind.
His lawyer asked him why: “I have already been sentenced to twenty years [in 2018, in Brussels, for firing police at his caval with Salah Abdeslam in 2016],” he said . There, I risk perpetuity. And then I come back to Belgium, where there will be a third trial [in September, that of the attacks of March 22, 2016], with the same questions, the same themes, the same people. I Will it defend myself as a hard to pick up eighty years behind? For guys like me, have hope, it’s dangerous. “
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