The debates are over. The Court withdrew, Monday, June 27, to deliberate. She will make her verdict on Wednesday evening.
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“Well, the debates are over.” It is 10:50 am on Monday, June 27, President Jean-Louis Périès suspends the audience, nine months, two weeks and five days after having said, September 8, 2021: “Well, the debates are open.” The magistrates of the Assize Court specially composed of Paris have withdrawn in a place outside the courthouse, where they will remain locked up for three days to deliberate and write their verdict. The next time they enter the courtroom and will take place on their platform, at the foot of the large light wood wall adorned with the balance of justice, it will be, Wednesday June 29 at the end of the day, to announce their goes out to the fourteen accused.
Monday, as the procedure wants, they had the floor last. “Do you have something to add for your defense?” Asked Jean-Louis Périès to each of them. Apart from Osama Krayem, faithful to his vow of silence, all have folded, a few seconds or a few minutes, to this uncomfortable exercise.
They used their last words to thank their lawyers for their work and the court for their listening, to apologize or all their support for the civil parties and to salute their courage and the strength of their testimonies, to condemn the last time Attacks, proclaim their innocence one last time, regret their mistakes one last time, say their trust in justice one last time.
“you destroyed my life”
Hamza Attou, Abdellah Chouaa and Ali Oulkadi, three “little hands” of the file that appear free and risk reincceration, thanked the survivors and relatives of many victims who came, every day, greet them and support them before or After the hearing. The second, muffled by emotion, also turned to Mohamed Abrini, whom he had accompanied at the airport when he left Syria in 2015 – without knowing his final destination, he assures – and That he had come to seek on his return, two journeys for which he risks big – the national anti -terrorist prosecution requested six years in prison. “Frankly, I blame you, Mohamed, I blame you, brother,” he scratched. You destroyed my life. “
The interested party said his “regrets” to have made him do “months in prison while he is innocent”, before engaging in a contrition exercise hitherto unprecedented for him: “I have Consciousness that what happened is filthy. I feel a lot of remorse, because I tell myself that, somewhere, I could have stopped all that. All that should never have happened. What happened these Last ten years is incredible, but it is reality. All I hope is that at the extinction of the fires, the victims can turn the page. I sincerely hope, from the bottom of my heart, which they will be able to rebuild themselves. “
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