Who is Mohammed Amri, the man who brought Salah Abdeslam back to Belgium?
He is one of the couriers who participated in the extraction of Salah Abdeslam in the hours following the attacks of November 13. Present before the Assize Court of Paris, Mohammed Amri, testified this Thursday and allowed the judges to retrace the course of the defendants.
Mohammed Amri did everything to present himself in his best light before the judges, recalling that he was one of the few to have had a stable job for several years. He worked in Samu social every winter to help the homeless. But it was while looking for a job in the spring that Mohammed Amri found himself working in the Béguines, the bar of the Abdeslam brothers, in the Molenbeek district in Brussels in Belgium.
As we retrace the life of Mohammed Amri, a map of Molenbeek is projected in the courtroom with dots to locate the homes of 9 people staying in this case, including the house of the Abdeslam family, glued to that of Mohamed Abrini. Abaaoud’s house, the mastermind of the November 13 attacks, is at the end of the street. As for Mohammed Amri’s, he explains that it is a little higher up the street “.
The facts will be judged in January 2022
It is at this moment that the declaration of the Belgian anti-terrorism judge at the start of the trial takes on its full meaning. “This file is a small world, everyone knows each other, they went to school together, they are cousins, they are friends.
When discussing neighborhood life, the accused smiles and his lawyers take the opportunity to describe the personality of the accused, described as “kind and helpful“by his relatives. They specify” that he did not hesitate to help out the young people of the district to take them somewhere because he had a car “.
Was it this kindness that prompted Mohammed Amri to go look for Salah Abdeslam in the middle of the night in a besieged Paris? This is the question the judges will have to answer, but it will not be for a few weeks, because the court has stopped the questioning of the accused, because the facts will not be dealt with until January 2022.