(Paris) A man now 66 years old lost his son Thomas, assassinated in Paris, at the Bataclan, on November 13, 2015. Of Muslim culture, married to a Catholic woman, he gave the accused a lesson in tolerance on Tuesday. , provoking a bitter reaction from the main defendant Salah Abdeslam.
Here are Ali’s main statements (first name changed at his request) before the special assize court in Paris:
” Nausea ”
“I am, as we commonly say, a“ beur de la 2e generation”. I come from an Algerian immigrant family of eight children ”.
“I have often wondered how and why young French people and young Belgians, brought up in Europe, who were trained in our schools, who know perfectly our lifestyles and our customs in the West, were they able to be enlisted, manipulated and galvanized by the ideology of the Islamic State, and to commit the irreparable ”, he said of the carnage of November 13, which occurred in Paris and in its close suburbs, during which 130 people were killed.
“These barbaric, intolerable, unspeakable acts of violence and their allegiance to an ideology and an Islamist organization, claiming to act in the name of Islam and the Koran, make me nauseous. ”
“I want to say (to the accused), as the son of an Algerian immigrant, of Muslim faith, that the Islam they advocate is neither mine, nor will it ever be, nor that of my parents, nor that of my neighbors, nor that of a billion and a half Muslims in the world. ”
“Lost”
“I refuse that we can make the amalgam between warmongers, lost in our society, social misfits, bloodthirsty killers and Muslims who have only one desire: to live in peace and in harmony, in an open human community that respects everyone. ”
“Muslims have nothing to do with these people who claim to defend a religion they probably don’t know. Did they only read the holy text of the Quran? Do they even know the difference between Muslims and Arabs? ”
“I would also like to tell them that by their abject and barbaric acts, they are taking all Muslims hostage. They give ground to grind to the extreme groups which create and maintain a confusion between Islamism and Islam, between refugees, immigration and terrorism in order to weaken even more the foreigners ”.
“Mr. Abdeslam, you said: ‘We fought France, we attacked France” […], but it is our children that you murdered, not France ”.
“You are using Islam to justify your crusade against the West and those you call the ‘kouffars’, that is to say the infidels, the disbelievers, to clearly justify an old-fashioned and archaic ideology in order, desperately, to seize power, to exist and prosper in the Syrian-Iraqi region. ”
“Group of thugs”
“You are just a group of thugs in search of territory, recognition and power. You do not represent Islam at all, you have no legitimacy, no country. You are ready to kill any person or groups of people who do not think like you, who do not share your ideas. ”
“The hatred of others dwells in you, blinds you and drives you mad, and that of women haunts you and will eventually kill you. I despise you. […]We will never agree to bow to fanaticism, barbarism and bloodthirsty killers that you are. ”
“You believed that this barbaric act was going to petrify and annihilate us, but you were wrong, because it galvanized us, it made us even stronger and more determined than ever to defend freedom, democracy and envy to live together in dignity and in peace ”.
“You will always find on your road men and women who will block your ideas and your murderous ideology. There is an Enlightenment Islam and it is in this that I recognize myself. ”
After a suspension of the hearing, Salah Abdeslam, main accused in the trial of the attacks claimed by the Islamic State group, wished to react. “I am not forcing anyone to become a Muslim. You, you have your legislation, your religion and your values and we don’t blame you for that. We practice our religion and our legislation at home, that’s all I have to say, ”he said.