Kalashnikovs or cannabis? What was Paris terror suspect trying to buy in Rotterdam?

(Radio France) On Thursday, the accused Ali El Haddad Asufi was questioned by the special criminal court about his possible involvement in helping the November 2015 Paris killers to obtain the Kalashnikov machine guns used in the attacks. Asufi admits that he made two trips to Holland in October 2015, but says he went to buy drugs, not weapons.

Ali El Haddad Asufi is not very convincing. Neither is the evidence against him.

“I never bought a Kalashnikov in my life,” he assured the Paris court on Thursday.

“You are not accused of buying anything,” the court president, Jean-Louis Périès, reminded him. “You are suspected of having helped in the search for weapons.”

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