(Radio France) Abdellah Chouaa is suspected of having helped with the preparation of the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks which cost 131 people their lives. He risks 20 years in prison if convicted. On Friday he gave evidence about himself, and about Mohamed Abrini, another of the accused.
Chouaa had the support of two women. His ex-wife and his current one. Neither had a bad word to say about him.
The former Mrs Chouaa testified from Belgium. She described the accused as someone of good character, a family man, very attached to the son they had together.
The witness rejected the image given to the court of Abdellah Chouaa’s father, an imam suspected of extremist leanings. Other witnesses have described the father as a Salafist, a fundamentalist.
