Last week, justice demanded that one officer be removed from his position. “Because of unprofessional behavior”, says the federal public service Justice. At the first preliminary hearing of the trial on September 12, a G4S agent was also removed from his position for the same complaint.
It is not clarified what “unprofessional conduct” actually means. But it was learned from well-informed sources that one of those two security agents would have shown “unhealthy interest” in the weapons of specialized police officers who, among other things, are responsible for the personal security of Salah Abdeslam, Abrini and associates.
During the first terror trial in the spring, the so-called Paris Bis trial, a security officer was also said to have been fired. The man, who guarded the parking lot of the courtroom in the old NATO buildings, was apparently known to the security services for “radicalisation”, Michaël Lamhasni, director general of the FPS Justice, confirms to the newspapers.