2023-06-27 10:25:32
“Mohamed Abrini was well behind a trolley” loaded with explosives at Zaventem airport, the morning of the attacks that claimed 32 lives at Brussels Airport and in the Maelbeek metro station. “He said it from the first day of the hearing: ‘I have a lot of responsibility for what happened’.”
Already during his arrest on April 8, 2016, the accused had admitted his involvement, recalled the one who has been assisting him since that day in the premises of the federal police.
Why these confessions? Asked Me Eskenazi. “He said to me, ‘I’m relieved’.”
Justice has done its work by ruling once morest “inhuman” conditions of detention and transfer, he said. “And you will respond present by motivating correctly, to silence all those who wanted this trial to be a fiasco”, underlined the criminal lawyer, his gaze fixed on the popular jury.
His colleague Me Laura Pinilla added that Mohamed Abrini would not plead voluntary renunciation, contrary to what the federal prosecutor had insinuated during his indictment. For the latter, it is clear that the abandonment by the accused of his loaded bomb following the first explosion is an act of cowardice or a survival reflex, but does not constitute a renunciation of the attack in itself. .
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