Mohammed Abrini is on trial in France accused of being involved in planning the terrorist attacks in Paris on November 15, 2015 and in Brussels on March 22, 2016 by being a member of the Islamic State. Here are some of the statements he made in court on January 11, 2022:
” To me, I’m not radical. For example, how do I explain it to you? There are places in the world, like in Saudi Arabia, you will find radical or strange things happening there, for me it’s regular Islam.”
When asked what he considered Sharia law, he replied without hesitation:
“Sharia is a divine law, it is applied in many countries of the world, and here. It is the divine law and for me it is above the law of men. If I were a free man, I would live in a country where there is Sharia law.”
He answered the question of whether Sharia should also be extended to Europe as follows:
“Jihad is a part of Islam. The Islamic State, the whole world regarded it as something new, but Islamic states have always existed. So it would have been better if historians had talked about it a little bit too.
Addressing those returning home to Syria, he explained:
“There are people who want to live according to God’s law, and I can understand that people move away with their families to live in such places.”
On the subject of suicide bombings, he admitted that he had not been able to “blow himself up” (faire sauter), but nevertheless stated that the attacks were understandable retaliations for Western policy in Syria.
“Those who blew themselves up did so in response to the bombings. Since we don’t have the ability to kill a soldier on the ground, we carry out attacks. It is bombing versus attack. I have always said I am not capable of this. I am capable of many things, but not this. Those who have decided to do this are people who have fought. The attacks are a reaction to violence.”
Anne-Laure Arruebo is one of the 130 people murdered on the night of terror in Paris on November 15, 2015. She was killed on the terrace of the Belle équipe at the age of 36. When Anne-Laure Arruebo’s family lawyer asked the accused if he had anything to say to the victims’ families, he first responded with a long silence. Then he said:
“That’s a strange question. I didn’t expect to be asked such a question.”
Then he remained silent again for a while and then explained:
“What I can tell them is that it is really sad what happened to them. They are victims twice over. Victims of France’s foreign policy and of the Islamic State’s foreign policy. (…) It is perhaps time to take to the streets to challenge France’s foreign policy.”
Addressing both the Islamic State massacres and the enslavement of women there, he said Napoleon and Genghis Khan would have done the same, if not worse. Asked about the Islamic State’s beheading videos, he countered:
“The beheadings were also carried out in France. They cut off the head of their king.”
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