(Radio France) Farid Kharkhach admits providing some of the false documents used by the Paris attacks killers. That crime is punishable by 20 years in jail; the prosecution wants Kharkhach to serve six. On Thursday, before an almost empty court, his young defenders asked for him to be acquitted.
First, we heard the words of the man himself as he mitigated his involvement and distanced himself from the rest of the accused. His statements were read by Maître Fanny Vial.
The point was to show how far Farid Kharkhach is from any association with terrorists.
We were given legal arguments. We were asked to wonder why Farid Kharkhach is being tried in France, rather than Belgium? We were encouraged to wonder why a Brussels court sentenced the intermediary in the supply of the false papers to just five years in jail.
