Has France been attacked for what it is or for what it does? This question has been going through the trial for two months now. Over the weeks, several factual elements have been made to the debates. Decryption.
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Has France been attacked for what it represents or because of its military interventions in Iraq and Syria against the Islamic State Organization (EI)? This question crosses the trial of the attacks of 13-November since its beginning. It was raised on September 15, at the sixth day of hearing, by the main accused, Salah Abdeslam: “François Hollande says that we fight France for your values and to divide you. It’s a manifest lying. When François Hollande made the decision to attack the Islamic State, he knew very well that his decision had risks. “
Two months later, the testimony of the former President of the Republic, heard as a witness on November 10, “sounded as an answer to these comments from the box:” This terrorist group has struck us not for our modes of Action abroad, but for our ways of life here. “It has not always been easy, during the hearings, to decide between these two explanations. The complexity of the facts, the sometimes floating chronology of certain stakeholders and the very duration of the trial have rarely made it possible to apprehend this question as a whole. Over the weeks, however, the debates have been shredded with many elements of response. Decryption.
Are the attacks a response to the intervention in Syria?
On October 28, an audio extract of a dictaphone abandoned by a spectator, who recorded the two and a half hours of the Bataclan killing, was broadcast at the hearing. It was heard between two shots, a terrorist justifying the attacks: “Why do you do that? You bomb our brothers in Syria, Iraq. (…) You can take it only to your President François Holland.”
In questioned by a lawyer of civil parties on the fact that his name is mentioned three times in this registration, François Holland replied, “It was a learning formula, a kind of refrain saying it was my fault. If there had been this attack. What was the intention? She was twofold: the first was to make us give up our intervention in Iraq and Syria. The second is to divide us, to do so that inside our country, there may be a doubt. ”
For the former president, the chronology of the events of the year 2015 suffices to deconstruct the argument presenting these attacks as an answer to the French intervention in Syria: “the dates are very important for the trial. The first Strike will only enter Syria on September 27, 2015, the Commando had organized well before. We know that the attacks were prepared since the end of 2014. “
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