PARIS, July 21: Aicha El Wafi, the mother of Zacarias Moussaoui, has decided to take her case to Paris, and eventually Washington, as the countdown begins towards the trial, scheduled for September 30, that could see her son condemned to death for his alleged role in last September’s attacks in the US.

Speaking before the Centre d’Accueil de la Presse Etrangere, the prestigious platform where the foreign press usually receives heads of state and other international personalities, El-Wafi said that she had decided to address the international press in the hope of convincing the world that her son’s incrimination as the only surviving participant in the Sept 11 attacks is nothing short of ridiculous.

“It’s an absurdity,” she noted, something she says she had already realized following her first attempts to contact her son, presently imprisoned in a federal facility outside of Washington.

“Today I’m convinced he had nothing to do with the preparation of the Sept 11 attacks, and that if he recently chose to plead guilty, all that I can say is that he’s not in his right mind, and surely is being manipulated.”