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U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Stone, 23, and his friends Skarlatos, 22, an Oregon National Guardsman, and Sadler, 23, a student at Sacramento State University, were on the high-speed train, which was traveling via Belgium, when a man armed with a Kalashnikov, an automatic Luger pistol and a box cutter raced through the car. The men tackled and subdued the gunman, who was taken into custody in France.

French authorities identified the gunman as Ayoub El-Khazzani, 26, a Moroccan with ties to radical Islam who may have traveled to Syria. His lawyer, Sophie David, said on French TV that her client claims he was just homeless and hungry and wanted to rob the train and then jump out a window.

And "he found the weapons in a park"!

This guy´s story is unbelievable. He says he found the Kalashnikov in the park where he sleeps. He didn´t want to hurt anyone, just rob them so he could eat. I was born at night, but not last night. Sheesh.

Lawyers are duty bound to put forward the explanation of events offered by their clients, even if its laughable, and that's not infrequent. For instance Michael Stone attempted to storm into the Stormont Assembly to murder certain individuals therein, and failed shambolically.

His defence, which he stuck to consistently, was that the whole thing was a piece of performance art. This did not avail him, but points for inventiveness I suppose.

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For Michael Stone I propose another piece of performance art. We should entitle this masterpiece 'The Firing Squad'.

Presumably Mr. El-Khazzani brought along the 8 extra clips , pistol, and knife that he found with the AK because he didn't want to break up the 'set.'

If he had left them in the park where he found the AK a small child might have found the pistol and knife. The child could have been injured. He was just trying to protect the children.

I'm not a defense attorney, but I've been around a lot of them.

The weapons were 'an attractive nuisance' and he is not to blame. The REAL corporate is the irresponsible lout who left those weapons in a public place. It' societies fault I tell you.

I like the "attractive nuisance" defense!

Defense attorneys have to come with a defense theory often given to them by their client. It doesn't mean they believe the theory themselves they just need one person on the jury to buy it.

Don't believe it. If he was hungry, why didn't he sell it to a proper terrorist?