She is the key witness of the investigation: ljustice has also made her the first protected witness in France. The Special Assize Court constituted for the trial of the attacks of November 13, 2015 will hear this Friday, April 8, the story of Sonia, a woman thanks to whom there were no new terrorist attacks in the following days.
In 2015, this devoted mother is a volunteer with the poor. Generous, she goes so far as to take in a lost young girl, Hasna, who sometimes takes drugs and lives at night, sometimes wears a burqa. On November 15, the latter asks Sonia to take her to Aubervilliers to help a cousin on the street. Sonia discovers there the one who, for two days, has had his face on all the televisions, wanted by the authorities because considered to be the coordinator of the attacks terraces and the Bataclan : Abdelamid Abaaoud.
After this staggering encounter, below a highway, which she will recount seven years later at the bar, Sonia called the police, gave the indications which made it possible to find the hideout of Abaaoud, where the Raid will end up kill, along with an accomplice and his cousin, Hasna Aït Boulahcen, on November 18, 2015.
Sonia then became a protected witness. For her safety, she had to change her identity, region and “adopt a legend”, like the spies, to continue her life, “recreate” Where “rather survive“, as she says.
Faced with threats, this Friday, she will testify remotely, filmed behind a screen. The Court even bought a voice scrambler so she wouldn’t be recognizable. “I want the victims to really know what happened“, she testified last September at the microphone of franceinfo. “I want the victims to know who they were dealing with. I want everyone who has done wrong to own up to the wrong they have done. Everyone needs to be able to mourn properly. I’m not just angry with the state, I’m angry with the people who didn’t say anything, who hid, who let it happen“.
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At the beginning of the hearing, the Court will hear at the bar an investigator from the anti-terrorist police who will specify the plan of attack that Abaaoud and his last accomplice intended to commit in Paris, in the business district of La Défense. , if Sonia had not allowed to put an end to her run.
Despite the risks she faces, the mother of three “do not regret“. The trial is to be held until June 24.