Me Orly Rezlan, lawyer for Mohamed Bakkali, against whom the perpetuity was required, invited the Court on Tuesday not to condemn this logistics of the attacks “equal to the assassins”.
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“Terrorist acts target a state of the company of which your court is a part. It is therefore inevitable that you position yourself as an instrument of struggle within the framework of what was presented as a war. You are, you Magistrates , involved in the definition of the response to this act. In other words, you are an element of the response. In such a context, what is your room for maneuver? What freedom of judgment can you expect from you who will participate in Deliberation? Faced with terrorism, there is one thing that concerns us all: that of knowing how we react to fear. It is basically, for each of us, the only space of freedom. And this question, perhaps be able to put it at the moment to examine the elements of charge against the accused. How do you react to fear? “
At the time of starting his plea, Tuesday, June 21, one of the most impressive heard for a week at the helm of the trial of the attacks of November 13, Me Orly Rezlan measures the extent of the task that : How to prevail the law in the face of the immensity of the crime judged? How to ask for a “fair” sentence for an accused, Mohamed Bakkali, whose involvement in the logistics of the attacks, the deadliest having struck France, is not disputed? How to convince the Paris Special Assize Court to consider it as a “litigant” and not as an “enemy”? How to avoid an “elimination sentence” to this “overwhelming terrient”, as the accusation, which required against him life imprisonment?
How, above all, carrying the voice of a man who had struck by his intelligence at the start of the trial before rummaging in silence for long months, convinced, he said, that his sincerity would be constantly put in doubt?
“Bakkali did not explain himself, he did not help to circumscribe his role. I will not make myself the ventriloque of declarations he did not make, but I will specify his position at the regard for the facts and I will try to be a bridge between him and you, “continues me rezlan with his sophisticated, monocord, nasal and hovering voice.
The” emerged part of the iceberg “
Yes, Mohamed Bakkali rented apartments in Belgium which will be used to accommodate the commandos sent from Syria. Yes, he rented cars. Yes, he himself conveyed the three Kamikazes of the Bataclan in one of these hideouts when they arrived in Brussels.
But her involvement stopped at these preparatory acts, she said, long before the implementation of the operation really begins. Mohamed Bakkali has never been asked for the “direct” preparation of the attacks, such as the rental of the cars and the hideouts used by the attackers on the evening of the November 13.
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