A hearing must now be held before a liberty and detention judge to decide on the placement in pre-trial detention of Mohammed Mogouchkov.
The assailant of the Arras attack, Mohammed Mogouchkov, was indicted on the evening of Tuesday October 17 by an anti-terrorism investigating judge for assassination and attempted assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise, as well as for criminal terrorist association, his lawyer announced to AFP. Information confirmed to franceinfo by a judicial source. A hearing must now be held before a liberty and detention judge to decide whether to place him in pre-trial detention, as required by the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office, or not. “My client will provide precise answers throughout the investigation and remains available to the courts”assured Verlaine Etam Sone.
Before the closed session was declared by the judge of freedoms and detention, the press was able to see the attacker in the box. Gray jacket, shoulder-length hair pulled back, beard growing, he surprised the journalists who entered the room by smiling. Then he kept an impassive face, straight gaze, frowning eyebrows.
The little brother also indicted
The attacker’s little brother, aged 16, was also indicted for complicity in assassination and attempted assassinations in connection with a terrorist enterprise, as well as for criminal terrorist association, reported to the AFP his lawyer, Ambroise Vienet-Legué.
This brother, also placed in pre-trial detention, is suspected of having “provided some support” to the attacker, particularly on “handling knives”explained earlier Tuesday the anti-terrorism public prosecutor, Jean-François Ricard to the press.
Their cousin, aged 15 and suspected of having been “informed of the project” without “do nothing to stop it”, was also indicted on Tuesday. Implicated for voluntary failure to prevent a crime or an offense against the integrity of a person, the adolescent is the subject of “‘a provisional judicial educational measure involving placement’specified the Pnat during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday.