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The 39-year-old Belgian-Moroccan is the only accused to have no connection with the others. Asked for the first time about the facts this Friday, he admitted having provided false documents to one of the masterminds of the attacks, but claims not to have noticed his radicalization.
A block of anguish wrapped in a purple shirt. In the case of the November 13 attacks, the accused Farid Kharkhach “holds the record for the number of different versions” given to investigators, is surprised Nicolas Braconnay, general counsel of the national anti-terrorism prosecution. Head down, the imposing 39-year-old Belgian-Moroccan justifies himself, evokes “Xanax and antidepressants”at the beginning of “memory problems”. Designated by the survey as “the intermediary between the terrorist group and the network of fabrication of false documents”, he was questioned on the facts for the first time this Friday before the specially composed assize court. Behind the fluctuations of his answers shines a constancy: his deep and undeniable anxiety. “Farid always tries to find an escape from facing reality because he is so afraid of it”supports with a sometimes disconcerting naturalness his wife, Meryem, heard as a witness by videoconference from Brussels. “He is really afraid of all the problems in life!”
“I fell off my chair!”
In the large glass box, Farid Kharkhach is the only one surrounded by strangers. He has no connection with the thirteen other defendants present. Hardly do we pick up an old SMS from …