November 13 trial. Suicide bomber's ex-girlfriend testifies: 'He wanted me to wear a veil'

The ex-girlfriend of Foued Mohamed-Aggad, one of the three Bataclan attackers, takes the stand. And warns from the outset: on the commission of the attacks of November 13, 2015, “I learned everything from the media. I don't know anything else." She will only talk about the "nice and nice" boy, whom she met in Castres (Tarn), when she was 16. He was "a completely different person than the one behind these acts".

She observed the radicalization of her lover, originally from Alsace. “When we were separated, he decided to go back to the North. There he met Mourad Fares (recruiter of jihadists, Ed.) with his brother and friends. For a whole night, he completely brainwashed them, telling them that they had nothing to do in France and that they had to go to Syria to fulfill their duty. »

“He wanted to take me to Syria”

According to her, the young man, who had failed to join the police, "immediately convinced himself that he had a goal, in Syria". She describes an abrupt change. He spends most of his time behind his computer screen, watching YouTube videos. “He wanted to take me with him. It was out of the question. He becomes violent. “He cut off my heels and tore my clothes because he thought they were too short. He was asking me to wear the veil…”

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She lets him go. Having left for Turkey, he joined Syria at the end of 2013, at the same time as his brother Karim and other members of the “Strasbourg network”. She is convinced that he is going there “to kill”. Refusing their breakup, the Alsatian continues to call her, passing her off as his wife. “He told me that he lived in a villa, that he ate very well. But his brother, who had quickly returned to France, told his mother that "there were 110 of them in the villa, on drugs, and eating bread and oil".

"He wanted to exist"

Foued Mohamed-Aggad's past would explain, according to her, that he got caught up in a "gear": "He had no affection , from his father, who was violent. And his mother raised four children on her own. He didn't come back because "he invented a world for himself," she said. “He wanted to exist and he was easily influenced. “The young woman seeks to cut ties, early 2014. She changes number. And wants to "forget". Until the day “when it appeared on the screens and when I learned the news on TV”.

Fatima Hajji, the mother of Foued Mohamed-Aggad, was also to be heard on Wednesday, December 15. His hearing is postponed. This woman was to be tried for "terrorist financing" on November 4 in Paris, but her trial was postponed to March 4, 2022. She is suspected of having sent €13,000 to her son when he was in Iraq and in Syria.