(Radio France) At the Paris terror trial, the Belgian police on Thursday finally came to the end of this phase of their evidence, leaving the bar to [family] members of the dead terrorists, and other accused who are prepared to testify. The court first heard from Yassine Abaaoud, younger brother of the operational leader of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
The limits were quickly established. “I am sorry for the victims, the innocent who die all over the world,” said Abaaoud as soon as his identity had been confirmed, “but I’m not sure I can be much use to this trial.”
That was all the 26-year-old witness was prepared to offer spontaneously.
The court president, Jean-Louis Périès, launched into a series of questions. The process was laborious, to say the best of it.
