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

The accused Mohammed Amri, during one of his interrogations before the special court in Paris. © Radio France / Valentin Pasquier

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 drove the sole surviving terrorist, Salah Abdeslam, back to Belgium on the morning after the attacks.

Mohammed Amri spoke late in the day. He was inarticulate, frequently truculent, argumentative, incoherent, aggressive. The contrast with the two witnesses who spoke on his behalf was striking. And unfortunate for the accused.

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