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Radio France Internationale
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Defence pleas on behalf of Laurel and Hardy, the terrorists who lost their way

An artist's impression of Muhammad Usman. © AFP

On Wednesday, the special criminal court trying Paris attacks suspects got into the red zone, with final presentations from the defence lawyers representing Muhammad Usman and Adel Haddadi. They are would-be terrorists who admit they were part of the Islamic State machine in Syria, and who returned to Europe as IS combatants, destined to die.

Usman and Haddadi have been the Laurel and Hardy of this trial. Without the laughter.

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