(Radio France) Tuesday’s session of the special criminal court, where 20 men are being tried for their alleged involvement in the November 2015 Paris terrorist killings, examined the cases of Adel Haddadi and Muhammed Usman. Both were arrested in Austria one month after the attacks in the French capital. They are suspected of having planned a terrorist action in France.
This was another day of police evidence from anonymous and invisible officers with metallic disguised voices.
Usman was born in Pakistan, into a strict Muslim family. There is a ten-year hole in his CV, between 2004 and 2014. The Pakistani authorities have told the French that he spent those years in a madrasa or Koranic school, and that he also learned bomb-making. The Pakistan police say that Usman was a member of the Taliban, a claim which the accused has always denied.
