Trial of the November 13 attacks: two videos screened at the request of DGSI investigators sow fear – LCI

They followed one another, not at the bar this Thursday, but behind a screen, in blurred Chinese shadows. At the trial of the attacks of November 13, 2015, the anonymized investigators “948SI” and “1310SI” returned to the activity in the Iraqi-Syrian zone of the accused present or under arrest warrant and on that of several terrorists from the 13- 11-15.

These DGSI police officers, exhaustive in their presentation, wished, with the agreement of the president, to illustrate their point with two videos that paralyzed the room.

The “948SI” investigator details the path of the accused Osama Krayem, who allegedly met Osama Atar and Mohamed Al-Adnani. “The investigation shows that in January 2015, Krayem was present during the execution of the Jordanian pilot Maaz al Kassasbeh captured by ISIS and burned alive on January 3, 2015. In Facebook conversations Krayem tells his brother and sister on Facebook that he is, alongside IS fighter, on the video where “a man is toast “. And ask that these terrible images be projected.

The president gives a warning, several people leave the room. “Of course, we do not see the pilot’s long agony”, specifies the investigator. The video is launched, the investigator “948SI” describes the images: “The pilot becomes aware of the damage he has caused. Behind the pilot can be seen Islamic State fighters. Among them, Osama Krayem.”

From the box, the accused whose name has just been pronounced by the investigator fixes the images. “The pilot Maaz al-Kassasbeh appears in a cage, is sprayed with a liquid. A fighter arrives with a torch. The fire is lit”, continues the investigator “948SI” in a room frozen by dread. The pilot’s body is charred. The cage he was in was crushed by a machine. The execution scene is unbearable.

“Krayem acknowledges that he was present during this execution. He appears as the guard who supervises the execution. This suggests that he was part of the Liwa As Saadiq” insists the investigator. The latter had explained earlier that the “Liwa as Saddiq “, was a brigade of “elite soldiers” founded in early 2014 by the number 2 of the Islamic State at the time, Abu Mohammad Al-Adnani, and in charge of the management of foreign hostages and other “sensitive missions”. The accused in the box has always denied having been part of this elite unit.

The “1310SI” investigator, in turn, takes the floor to address in particular the “rise in power” of Abdelhamid Abaaoud in Syria. She mentions in particular several videos and photos captured in her phone. “The images illustrate the barbaric daily life of the group. Several files dated 12-02-2014 bear witness to the massacres perpetrated in Hraytan“, she comments. “I come to the infamous video of the pick-up, found in Abaaoud’s cellphone and shot in Hraytan on February 12, 2014, the day of the massacre”, she continues asking, too, a projection on the big screen. This time, no one leaves the courtroom, but the dread remains the same.

After the hearing, we questioned several civil parties on the need to see such images have differing opinions. “To show this is to please the accused, as when it was a question of showing Bataclan images with corpses on the ground “, one of them confides. Another is not of this opinion: “If we don’t show what these monsters are capable of, then this trial doesn’t make sense. And if we know for the most part these images, the extracts of these videos had never been viewed so extensively. Today, we saw the horror “.