Marie Violleau and Stanislas Eskenazi tried to convince the court on Thursday, to sentence to thirty years old, and not to life prison, their client who had given up at the last minute to participate in the attacks.
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The trial of the attacks of November 13 is approaching its term, the air becomes scarce in the courtroom, the time is for the pleadings of the impossible. Lawyers from Salah Abdeslam must be expressed last Friday, June 24. Thursday 23, those of Mohamed Abrini had the floor to convince the judges to grant their client a better fate than the perpetuity accompanied by a safety sentence of twenty-two years required by the national anti-terrorist prosecution.
How to plead for Mohamed Abrini? What to say in favor of this awkward accused? How to defend the one who praised the cars that served attacks in the evening, and the hideouts of terrorists in the Parisian suburbs? How to avoid perpetuity to the childhood friend of Salah Abdeslam and Abdelhamid Abaaoud, supposed to participate with them in the carnage on November 13, 2015, but who, the previous night, chose to leave Paris in disaster?
” perpetuity hovers here, above our heads, like a raptor above humanity. Perpetuity is to remove the piece of sky between the Bars of the cell. It is to delete pure air in the small penitentiary court. It is to lower the ceilings of the prisons so that we can never stand up. “Vaillably, Marie Violleau pleaded against the inevitable, this penalty maximum required against five accused, and which seems promised to that which she defends alongside Stanislas Eskenazi.
Double renunciation
The task of the lawyers of Mohamed Abrini was an insoluble equation. Not without a certain plume, they suggested to the Assize Court specially composed of Paris to resolve it by contenting himself with inflicting a thirty -year sentence on “the hat”, which will be tried again Fall in Brussels for his involvement in the attacks that hit the Belgian capital on March 22, 2016 – he had this time gave up the final second to detonate himself at Zaventem airport.
This double renunciation would almost be its best asset today. “Mohamed Abrini is guilty, you will punish him, he is the first to know,” said M e violeau, but you will not forget that he has never stopped doubt. ” On the evening of November 12, 2015, he doubts as he says no: “He doesn’t want to go there anymore. He slams the door, he will not be. He will not hold Kalashnikov in his hands, he will not go Not shooting at random on the terraces, he will not have an explosive vest. On November 13, he will not kill anyone. It is not nothing to give up at this stage, to drop everything. “
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