(Radio France) On Friday, it was the turn of Mohammed Amri to testify before the Paris court trying himself and 19 other individuals for their alleged complicity in the November 2015 massacres which cost 131 people their lives. Amri admits that he drove the sole surviving terrorist, Salah Abdeslam, back to Belgium on the morning after the attacks.
Mohammed Amri spoke late in the day. He was inarticulate, frequently truculent, argumentative, incoherent, aggressive. The contrast with the two witnesses who spoke on his behalf was striking. And unfortunate for the accused.
The prisoner’s father, Bennasser Amri, was the first to speak by videolink from the federal police building in the Belgian capital, Brussels.
This 66-year-old Moroccan, long established in Belgium, described his son as kind and generous, “a really good person.”
