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Legal

Paris attacks accused fails to live up to the glowing image painted by his father, wife

January 29, 2022 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) On Friday, it was the turn of Mohammed Amri to testify before the Paris court trying himself and 19 other individuals for their alleged complicity in the November 2015 massacres which cost 131 people their lives. Amri admits that he […]

Legal

Second man accused of complicity in Paris attacks invokes right to silence

January 27, 2022 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) A second of the 14 men accused of complicity in the November 2015 terrorist attacks has told the special criminal court that he will no longer make statements or answer questions. “I have already been condemned for something I did […]

Legal

Truth lost in translation as Pakistani suspect manipulates language gap

January 26, 2022 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) Following the second Covid-enforced adjournment of the year, the Paris attacks trial resumed on Tuesday with evidence from Muhammed Usman, one of the accused, on his religious background and his activities in the Syrian war zone. Nothing was terribly clear. […]

Legal

Confusion and contradiction as terrorist accused says one thing while thinking another

January 15, 2022 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) Friday’s hearing at the November 2015 terror trial was devoted to testimony from Adel Haddadi, an Islamic State suspect who was arrested in Austria, and who is accused of having planned to take part in the Paris attacks. Adel Haddadi […]

Legal

Paris attacks suspect returns to the box but keeps vow of silence

January 14, 2022 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) Osama Krayem, one of the accused in the Paris attacks trial, on Thursday refused to make any statement or answer questions on his religious convictions and his engagement with Islamic State in Syria. One witness did speak, glowingly, on his […]

Legal

Paris attacks accused Mohamed Abrini shrugs off damning evidence

January 13, 2022 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) Wednesday’s testimony from Mohamed Abrini, who is charged with complicity in the Paris attacks, focused on the suspect’s 2015 journey from Belgium to the Islamic State heartland in Syria, and his return via London, Birmingham, Manchester and Paris. According to […]

Legal

Paris attacks suspect refuses to condemn killers, sympathises with victims, families

January 12, 2022 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) On Tuesday, the Covid-disrupted Paris terror trial resumed with evidence from Mohamed Abrini, one of the accused, on his religious convictions and his decision to join the ranks of Islamic State in Syria. Mohamed Abrini is a contradictory individual. He […]

Health & Medicine

Chaos in Paris attacks court as angry Covid debate forces delays

January 7, 2022 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) A second attempt was made to re-open the Paris November 2015 terror trial on Thursday. The Tuesday session had to be abandoned because one of the accused, Salah Abdeslam, had tested positive for Covid. Two days later it took six […]

Legal

A grim warning, as Paris court hears testimony on the making of a terrorist

December 19, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) In the final week of hearings before the winter break, the special criminal court in Paris heard from the relatives of some of the dead terrorists involved in the November 2015 attacks. A senior police investigator, meanwhile, warned that similar […]

Law Enforcement

Paris attacks ‘could happen again tomorrow,’ warns veteran anti-terror cop

December 18, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) Patrick Calvar spent 25 years of his policing career fighting terrorism. He was head of the French Interior Security Division between 2012 and 2017. On Friday, he told the special criminal court trying those suspected of complicity in the November […]

Legal

Dope, drinks and dangerous propaganda: A glimpse inside the Abdeslam brothers’ café

December 17, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) Only two of the three witnesses called on Thursday actually gave evidence. Both were associates of the Abdeslam brothers at their café in Brussels. Both spoke by videolink from the federal police building in the Belgian capital. Neither had much […]

Converting to Islam

Dead, imprisoned, disgraced: A family destroyed by an ideology of hate

December 16, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) This has been the week of the Clain family at the Paris attacks trial. On Tuesday, a police witness described the careers of Fabien and Jean-Michel Clain, directors of the IS propaganda effort, both presumed dead in Syria. On Wednesday, […]

Legal

A father lost in incomprehension over ‘normal’ son’s [involvement] in Paris attacks

December 15, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) Tuesday’s session of the Paris attacks trial was dominated by a police report on the Clain family of jihadist extremists. The court also heard from the father of a dead terrorist, another man mystified by the transformation of … his […]

Legal

This week in court: Families of terrorists follow Belgian police in search for answers

December 12, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) There was another shift in the atmosphere at the special criminal court in Paris this week. The televised evidence from anonymous Belgian police investigators came to an end, and real witnesses once again appeared at the bar. They were no […]

Legal

Paris attacks court asks relatives of dead terrorists to explain what went wrong

December 11, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) There is a problem. Now that the families of the deceased terrorists and other accused are giving evidence at the Paris attacks trial, the court is faced with the emotional dilemma of fathers, brothers, sisters who must condemn the barbarous […]

Legal

The Abaaoud family, collateral victims of the violence of a terrorist son

December 10, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) At the Paris terror trial, the Belgian police on Thursday finally came to the end of this phase of their evidence, leaving the bar to [family] members of the dead terrorists, and other accused who are prepared to testify. The […]

Law Enforcement

Court probes the backgrounds of two minor Paris attacks players

December 9, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) Wednesday’s session of the Paris terror trial was devoted to Belgian police evidence on the backgrounds of Abdellah Chouaa and Ali Oulkadi, two of the accused who are not in police custody and who sit near, but not inside, the […]

Law Enforcement

Abdeslam lawyer mocks Belgian police, insists on her right to criticise incompetence

December 8, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) At the special criminal court in Paris where 20 men are being tried for their alleged involvement in the November 2015 terrorist killings, Tuesday’s hearing featured the resumption of Belgian police evidence from Brussels. The careers of two of the […]

Crime

Smugglers who made a hefty profit from transporting migrants jailed

December 7, 2021 Unlisted Author  

(Radio France) Three people smugglers were handed between one- and four-year jail terms by a court in Boulogne-sur-Mer in the north of France on Monday. According to the France [Bleu] Nord news site, the three smugglers were handed jail terms for their […]

Law Enforcement

This week in court: Belgian TV, protests and the mystery of the absent artists

December 5, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) This was another week of televised testimony from Belgian police investigators, with five of the accused still refusing to leave their cells in protest at the fact that the witnesses from Brussels are being allowed to testify anonymously. And then […]

Law Enforcement

The flimsy case against a man caught in a web of contradictions

December 4, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) If there is no doubt about the central part played in the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks by Oussama Atar, the role of his brother, Yassine, remains much less clear. On Friday, a Belgian police officer presented as much evidence […]

Law Enforcement

Anger and doubt over Belgian handling of Paris terrorist mastermind

December 3, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) The Paris attacks trial continued on Thursday with Belgian police giving evidence on the terrorist career of Oussama Atar, mastermind of the November 2015 murders that cost 131 people their lives. Atar himself is presumed dead in a coalition air […]

Law Enforcement

Paris attacks accused suspends boycott to hear about himself

December 2, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) Wednesday, the 52nd day of the trial of 20 men suspected of involvement in the November 2015 Paris massacres, was devoted to Belgian police evidence, relaid by videolink from the office of the attorney general in Brussels. Four of the […]

Law Enforcement

Belgian police testimony on terror suspect leaves crucial questions unanswered

December 1, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) The Paris attacks trial resumed on Tuesday with police evidence from Brussels on the background and Syrian activities of Mohamed Abrini. Abrini did not hear what was said about him, since he is one of five accused who continue to […]

Law Enforcement

This week in court: Austrian arrests, Belgian blunders and missing prisoners

November 28, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) The Paris special criminal court, where 20 men are being tried for their alleged participation in the November 2015 terrorist attacks in the French capital, this week heard evidence from an Austrian policeman in person, and from Belgian policemen via […]

Law Enforcement

Belgian police on defensive as Paris court unites to condemn ‘lack of cooperation’

November 27, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) The official aim of Friday’s session of the Paris attacks trial was to hear evidence from Belgian police investigators on the backgrounds of two of the dead terrorists and one other suspect. The hearing was, however, marked by the refusal […]

Law Enforcement

4 alleged Paris attackers protest over evidence from Belgium investigators

November 26, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) Four of the 14 men normally present in the courtroom at the Paris attacks trial in the central Paris Palais de Justice on Thursday refused to take their places in the box for the accused. Their legal teams explained that […]

Law Enforcement

Adel Haddadi: Would-be Paris attacker ‘caught in a moral dilemma’

November 26, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) Wednesday’s evidence at the Paris attacks trial focused for the second successive day on Adel Haddadi and Muhammed Usman, both accused of planning a terrorist action in France. They were stopped by Austrian police as they tried to cross Europe. […]

Law Enforcement

In the footsteps of two alleged attackers that never made it to Paris

November 24, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) Tuesday’s session of the special criminal court, where 20 men are being tried for their alleged involvement in the November 2015 Paris terrorist killings, examined the cases of Adel Haddadi and Muhammed Usman. Both were arrested in Austria one month […]

Legal

How the Islamic State ran its meticulous terror operation from Syria

November 21, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) During the past week at the Paris special criminal court, where 20 men are being tried over the November 2015 terrorist killings that cost 131 people their lives, witnesses offered a chilling glimpse of the methodology of murder elaborated by […]

Legal

Court hears of family life and terrorist trajectories of slain Bataclan killers

November 20, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) On Friday, the special criminal court in Paris continued to hear evidence of anonymous police investigators, this time on the terrorist careers of the three Bataclan killers: Sami Amimour, Ismaël Mostefaï and Fouad Mohamed Aggad. Amimour appears to have become […]

Law Enforcement

The cruelty behind the Islamic State’s overseas terrorist operation

November 19, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) The Paris attacks trial on Thursday heard from two police witnesses. The first explained the way in which Islamic State organised its overseas terrorist operations. The second outlined the grisly career of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, one of the Paris killers, himself […]

Legal

Paris trial given theoretical and practical lessons on jihadist terrorism

November 17, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) The special criminal court, where 20 men are being tried for their alleged involvement in the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, heard two expert witnesses on Tuesday. Hugo Micheron is a researcher who has worked on radical Islam in […]

Government & Politics

A week of contrasts at Paris attacks trial, as France marked 6th anniversary of the massacres

November 14, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) A short week of sharp contrasts at the Paris special criminal court where the trial is taking place of those suspected of involvement in the November 2015 terrorist killings in the French capital. With the 11 November national holiday, and […]

History

History lessons to help us understand the brutality of modern jihadism

November 10, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) There was yet another dramatic shift in the emotional temperature at the Paris attacks trial on Tuesday, as two anonymous and invisible police investigators gave lectures on the history of Islamic holy war and the Syrian context of the 2015 […]

Legal

Surprises and similarities as Paris attacks suspects reveal their backgrounds

November 7, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) The past week of the Paris attacks trial has been devoted to an examination of the family backgrounds and personalities of the men accused of involvement in the 2015 massacres which cost 131 people their lives. There have been surprises. […]

Legal

Lives and livelihoods: Backgrounds of Paris attacks suspects come to the fore

November 6, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) Friday was the 40th day of hearings in the trial of those suspected of involvement in the November 2015 Paris attacks which cost the lives of 131 people. The investigation into the personalities of the final four accused was completed, […]

Legal

Personalities of Islamic State’s international brigade paraded before French court

November 5, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) The parade of personalities continues at the special criminal court in Paris, with four more suspects … Adel [Haddadi], Mohammed [Amri], Muhammed Usman and Osama Krayem … describing their family and personal backgrounds in Algeria, Belgium, Pakistan and Sweden. For […]

Legal

Stable family backgrounds, minor criminal careers: Histories of the Paris attacks accused

November 4, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) Mohamed Abrini, Yassine [Atar], Hamza Attou, Mohamed Bakkali, Sofien Ayari and Abdellah Chouaa … those accused of involvement in the November 2015 Paris attacks continue to give evidence about their personal backgrounds, a litany of small-scale crime and human tragedy. […]

Legal

The changed face of Salah Abdeslam, former ‘soldier of Allah’

November 3, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) The rhythm and atmosphere at the Paris attacks trial changed dramatically on Tuesday, with the opening of the examination of the personalities of the accused. Since the 14 men before the court testify in alphabetic order, Salah Abdeslam, the sole […]

Government & Politics

France offers accommodation to migrants in Calais after hunger strike pressure

November 2, 2021 Unlisted Author  

(Radio France) The French government will “systematically” offer accommodation to migrants at the Calais migrant centre after three activists staged a collective hunger strike for 23 days. “We will systematically offer accommodation, which will be mainly in Pas-de-Calais, in Hauts-de-France, but not […]

Health & Medicine

The police medics forced to make life-and-death choices on the Bataclan floor

October 29, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) The work of the special police units sent to face armed killers is so dangerous that they have their own medical specialists with them during every operation. At Thursday’s session of the Paris attacks trial, two of the doctors who […]

Law Enforcement

Bitter testimony from the Bataclan’s forgotten police heroes

October 28, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) Everyone knows about the heroism of the specialised BRI and RAID police units, the men who finally confronted the terrorists and saved the hostages at the Bataclan. But the bravery of the 17 men of the Paris Anti-Criminal Brigade (BAC […]

Health & Medicine

Father describes the tragic fate of the 131st victim of the November 2015 massacres

October 27, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) One hundred and thirty people were killed on the night of 13 November 2015, or died shortly afterwards from their injuries. But there was one other victim, who escaped physically unhurt, only to take his own life two years after […]

Legal

Bataclan families speak of the impossibility of forgetting, the difficulty of forgiving

October 26, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) Testimony from bereaved families continues before the special criminal court in Paris, where 20 men are being tried on suspicion of involvement in the November 2015 massacre of 130 people in the French capital. “The suffering is a relentless part […]

Legal

Tragic litany of loss as Bataclan survivors and bereaved families continue to testify

October 24, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) Bataclan survivors, hostages, police officers and the families of victims continued their tragic testimonies this week at the special criminal court in Paris, where 20 men are being tried for alleged involvement in the November 2015 terrorist attacks in which […]

Legal

Last words, last hopes, lasting fears: The endless night of the Bataclan families

October 23, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) On Friday, at the special criminal court where 20 men are being tried on suspicion of involvement in the November 2015 Paris massacres of 130 people, the families of some of the 90 Bataclan victims attempted to describe their on-going […]

Legal

Sad parade of the fathers, widows and orphans of the Bataclan dead

October 22, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) “When my father died at the Bataclan, I was seven years old. I didn’t know what death meant.” With testimony from the families of victims continuing at the November 2015 terror trial, the profound sadness in the wake of the […]

Health & Medicine

Paris attacks trial hears devastating testimony of long-term impact of attack

October 21, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) The psychological damage does not affect only those who were witnesses or victims of the terrorist attacks on the night of 13 November 2015. Practically all the civil witness testimonies point to the impact of the victims’ damaged lives on […]

Legal

Bataclan survivors recount ‘chatting’ with attackers during the assault

October 20, 2021 Michael Fitzpatrick  

(Radio France) After the explosion which killed Sami Amimour, the two surviving murderers lined up a group of terrified hostages and began herding them along the left-hand balcony of the Bataclan, in the direction of the stage. “It was,” explained one of […]

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