(Radio France) On Friday the Paris special criminal court, where those suspected of complicity in the November 2015 terrorist attacks are being tried, heard evidence from a remarkable woman who saved many lives, at the cost of her own identity.
A blurred image on a screen, an electronically falsified voice, a name which is not her own. That’s all that remains of the woman who, on 16 November 2015, contacted the police to say she knew where Abdelhamid Abaaoud, terrace murderer and coordinator of the Paris attacks, was hiding.
She told the authorities they had to act quickly, because Abaaoud was planning another terrorist atrocity.
Hours later, the terrorist leader and another Paris killer, Chakib Akrouh, were dead. The woman who had so crucially helped the police was on her way to a new life with a new identity under the witness protection scheme.
