(Radio France) The trial has opened before a special criminal court of Reda Hame, the French jihadist known to have associated in Syria with one of the masterminds of the Bataclan killings.
Thirty-four-year-old Hame is accused of “taking part in a criminal group with a view to perpetrating a crime which would endanger the lives of others.”
The accused spent little more than a week in Syria in June 2015. During that time, he claims he was approached by Abdelhamid Abaaoud, one of the killers who opened fire with a machine gun on the crowd attending a concert at the Bataclan venue in central Paris in November 2015.
One hundred and thirty people lost their lives at several venues on the same night, victims of three coordinated attacks.
