Continuing his opening of the prosecution case on Thursday, Harpreet Sandhu KC told jurors: “Abdelhamid Abaaoud’s actions, which led to those deaths and injuries, were a source of inspiration for Walid Saadaoui. “He wanted to replicate what Abaaoud had done. “Walid Saadaoui hero-worshipped that terrorist.” In social media posts, the defendant wrote about the Belgian-born Islamic terrorist – suspected of organising multiple terrorist attacks in Belgium and France – with “pride and reverence”, said the prosecutor. In a Facebook post in January 2023 he allegedly wrote: “At only the age of 26, [Abaaoud] humiliated the most notorious heretic states, Belgium...
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