(Radio France) On Thursday, it was the turn of Hamza Attou and Ali Oulkadi to give evidence at the Paris attacks trial. Both are suspected of having helped Salah Abdeslam, the only member of the Paris terror squads still alive, to avoid arrest. Neither man is imprisoned. They sit in the open, in front of the prisoners’ enclosure. They answered questions at the bar in the special criminal court.
Hamza Attou worked in Les Béguines, the Brussels café run by Brahim Abdeslam.
No, he did not notice any signs of radicalisation in either Brahim or his brother Salah. “They weren’t religious. They didn’t pray.”
Brahim Abdeslam blew himself up on the night of the Paris attacks. Salah returned from Paris that same night in a car in which Hamza Attou was a passenger.
