After having delivered, the day before, his version of the facts, the accused faced the questions of the parquet, skeptical on several points of his statements.
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SALAH Abdeslam, Round 2. In the aftermath of an interruption interrogation by the night, during which the main accused of the trial of the attacks of 13-November delivered his version of the facts, the special Assize Court of Paris A again heard Salah Abdeslam, Thursday, April 14th. This time places the questions of the Prosecution and the civil parties, which have not always been convinced by its story of the day before and will focus on sonding the fragilities.
The main axis of the defense of Salah Abdesman is to decline as much as possible the date from which he says he participated informedly of the project of attacks, as a logistician first, then as as Suicide bomber. When his brother Brahim, back from a stay in Syria, would have asked him, at the end of spring 2015, to “look for” members of the Islamic state to convey them to Brussels, he assures he thought he was thinking at simple “humanitarian repatriations”.
This hypothesis is difficult to admit on the intellectual level, but the accused does not demolish. The prosecution believes he has detected an evolution in his statements of the day before: “Yesterday, you said, for the first time, that your brother had a” mission “when he returned from Syria, slips the magistrate, who would gladly graze the qualifier of “Terrorist” to this mission.
– Exactly. This mission was to go for people, insists the accused. I did not know they had gone attacks. “
” I have no answer to bring you “
When did Salah Abdeslam realize that his “work”, as he says, was part of a terrorist project? To believe it, he learned that on November 11 of his brother Brahim, who would have revealed him at the same time as Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the coordinator of attacks, was in Belgium. According to him, it was on the night of November 11 to 12 that his friend Abaaoud would have convinced him to be exploded.
The parquet does hardly believe this last-minute recruitment: “On November 10, all the telephone lines of those who are intended to take into action, whose yours, cease to be used. We are a night Before your recruitment supposed by Abaaoud …
– I have no answer to bring you, “answers the accused.
Other question: What was the exact nature of his mission on November 13? At his first hearing after his arrest, in 2016, Salah Abdeslam said he had to be exploded at the “Stade de France with accomplices”, and that he had taken the subway in Paris soon after giving up. On Wednesday, he claimed that he should actually be exploded alone in a bar of the e arrondissement, and that he finally took the metro “.
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