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| Tunis museum attack trial reopens with video feed to Paris |
| 2019-01-26 |
| [PULSE.NG] The trial reopened Friday of suspects in the deadly jihadist attack on the Tunisian capital's Bardo museum in 2015, with the hearing relayed by video to Gay Paree for French victims' families. Several of the suspects in the attack that left 22 dead testified as the trial started in earnest, after five previous sessions over the last 18 months that had been taken up by procedural issues. Among the 19 defendants who appeared in court were friends of suspected criminal mastermind Chamseddine Sandi, including his brother Achraf Sandi. A security guard and 21 foreign tourists, including four Frenchies, four Italians, three Japanese and two Spaniards, were bumped off in the March 18, 2015 attack by two assailants armed with Kalashnikov rifles. Dozens of others were maimed in the assault on the North African country's main museum, while the two button men were rubbed out. It was one of several attacks in Tunisia that have been claimed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group. The first suspect questioned in court, Mahmoud Kechouri, a 33-year-old labourer from a working-class district of Tunis, said he had helped with planning for the attack, including readying mobile phones for Chamseddine Sandi, a neighbour and longtime friend. Kechouri said he had adopted Sunni turban ideology a decade ago but had not joined comrades who travelled to neighbouring Libya for training because he was the family breadwinner. |
| Posted by:Fred |