Regarding the Kouachi brothers and the killing of “Charlie Hebdo”, the serial numbers have been filed and it is impossible to identify the suppliers or the intermediaries.
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The question of the origin of weapons in the attacks of January 2015 remains partly a mystery, which is annoying to say the least in such a publicized case and for such a thick investigation file. The appeal trial, in progress before the Court of Appeal specially composed of Paris, made it possible to see more clearly?
Concerning the Kouachi brothers, the weapons with whom they killed the people present at Charlie Hebdo and the police Ahmed Merabet remain to this day of unknown origin. The serial numbers were filed, just it was possible to establish their origin-the ex-Yugoslavia-but never to identify suppliers or intermediaries. Nothing new has been said on this point to date. The ballistic expert responsible for examining the arsenal of Amedy Coulibaly, the terrorist of Montrouge and the Hyper Cacher, only confirmed that the weapons of the Kouachi brothers and those of Coulibaly came from “two distinct sectors”.
The Coulibaly weapons component is much more provided, but it suffers from a fundamental defect: it was judged separately, within the framework of a disjointed file, before the Criminal Court of Lille in 2017 then the court D ‘Call of Douai in 2019. Chance of fate, judge Marc Trévidic, who officiated at the anti -terrorist instruction center until September 2015, found himself to judge the arms component in Lille.
“We sold weapons of war in an astronomical way”
Heard as a witness at the request of the defenders of Ali Riza Polat, convicted of complicity of terrorist assassinations at thirty years’ imprisonment at first instance, the magistrate came to testify Monday October 3 before the Court of Appeal. Now President of the Chamber at the Versailles Court of Appeal, he assures him: “We sold weapons of war in an astronomical way”, 436 in all for Claude Hermant, who sold 7 of the 8 weapons held that Amedy Coulibaly. Second observation of the magistrate: there is no anti -terrorism on the one hand and, on the other, organized crime, “it is a much more insidious mixture than one imagines”.
Questioned by defense lawyers on the advisability of separating arms trafficking from the main file from January 2015 attacks, Marc Trévidic could only agree: “On the anti -terrorist side, it is always better to have the ‘Integrality of the spectrum. But the situation in 2015 suggests that it was too heavy (…). These are choices. “The choices that the investigating judge of the January attacks file, Nathalie Poux, had already justified by lack of time a few days before.
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