Brussels Trial Opens for Alleged Accomplices in 2015 Paris Terror Attacks

The so-called "Paris bis" trial, the Belgian part of the investigation into the November 13 attacks, opened on Tuesday, April 19 before the Brussels Criminal Court. The Moroccan Mohamed Rabhioui, one of the twelve defendants suspected of having participated, directly or indirectly, in the attacks by providing assistance to the perpetrators or their main accomplices, contests, at the stand, on Friday the charges against him.
"I was questioned for fourteen days in Morocco. I took four years. I have nothing to do with it, I’m not a terrorist, I didn’t help any terrorists. Talk to me about ’stup’, talk to me about other things," he proclaimed, who was released on probation in 2017, before being incarcerated again for a year in France, this time in the context of an international drug trafficking case. Mohamed Rabhioui is accused of having helped Ahmed Dahmani, one of the alleged logisticians of the Paris attacks of November 15, 2015. He is also accused of having served as an intermediary for the manufacture of false papers, including a passport, for the benefit of the same terrorist, who had fled to Turkey the day after the attacks, reports Belga.
Mohamed Rabhioui disputes the accusations. "If I had to make a fake passport, I would have already done it for myself. I didn’t serve as an intermediary. No, I don’t know who sent me these photos! Never would I have made him a passport. The man who made the passport, you apprehended him. I don’t know him," he said, claiming to have no element to bring to the "Paris bis" case. "What is this? Do you want to finish me off? I don’t bring any element, me, in this case. I’m no use to you," the defendant proclaimed.
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