By SudOuest.fr with AFP
At the trial of the November 13 attacks on Tuesday, January 25, one of the defendants, Muhammad Usman, denied all the facts, even saying that he had discovered the “scale” of the attacks in Austria.
He did nothing, saw nothing, knew nothing, and he also says he was “shocked” by the attacks. At the trial of November 13 Tuesday, November 25, the Pakistani Muhammad Usman, who was according to the prosecution to be part of the commandos, used the patience of the court.
“Wait, you do all this traveling, you cross several countries to join the Châm because you were convinced that it was your mission, you arrive there and you do… Nothing. »
President Jean-Louis Périès has been asking questions and answers for a good hour and can no longer hide his exasperation with the accused standing in the box.
He assures that he has “done nothing”
Via the interpreter or sometimes in French, Muhammad Usman, shaved head, black long-sleeved polo shirt, assures that he discovered the Daesh group via a certain “Abu Obeida”, who contacted him on the internet to teach him the ” true Islam” and “spin his brains out” to join ISIS.
Painfully, the court made him return to his journey between Pakistan and Syria “in the summer of 2015”, according to him, much earlier according to the prosecution.
Indeed, he did indeed make this journey described by the investigators as “totally useless”, crossing Turkey up and down, mainly on foot. Either “35 hours of walking a day”, notes the president, “it seems a bit complicated”.
Once there, in Syria as in Iraq, the accused then assures that he did “nothing”.
Kalashnikov training
“It was Daesh who received you, do we agree? In 2015 they have conflicts all over the place, in Fallujah, in Aleppo, in Raqqa, that’s why they bring in people, fighters. And you, you are brought from Pakistan just to read the Koran and go to the mosque, for three weeks? “, blows the president, disillusioned.
The court gives up and moves on to the “mission” which, according to the prosecution, will finally be entrusted to it in Raqqa: participating in an attack, suicide in France, in a group made up of one of its co-defendants and the two Iraqis who will be blown up at the Stade de France.
“It was Daesh who received you, do we agree? »
The group was separated on the migrant route, when Muhammad Usman and Algerian Adel Haddadi were arrested and detained in Greece for a month, which would have prevented them from joining the other commandos in time.
” Why you ? Knowing that you haven’t trained, supposedly, that you haven’t participated in any battles? “, insists the court. At the tip of his lips, the accused recognizes, for the first time, training with the Kalashnikov for “one or two days” in Raqqa.
“So there was in the mission the use of a Kalashnikov”, tries President Périès. “I don’t know, I didn’t have the details,” replies the accused. Not the detail of the objectives, is that it? ” Yes “. Or how to proceed? “They just told me that when I get there they will tell me. »
Muhammad Usman says he discovered “the scale” of the attacks in Austria, where he was arrested in December 2015.