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 Ahtman wrote:

 Steve steveson wrote:
Asking if something is possible is part of the legal system and how we test "beyond reasonable doubt". If something is a possible alternative then you have reasonable doubt. If you base it on speculation, which is all the terrorist claims were at the time (more evidence has since come out) then that is a very bad legal system.

As you say it can't just be doubt it has to be a reasonable doubt, and accidentally finding all those weapons and then going after people on a train isn't really all that reasonable. It is possible, just not reasonably so.

Add in he was on more than one watch lists and had been watching Jihad videos (including one right before he did this) and I submit if you have a doubt you're unreasonable.

Today authorities in France said El-Khazzani had watched a radical Islamic video just before he threatened to shoot, as they opened the case against him.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/paris-train-shooting-gunman-watched-jihadi-video-before-opening-fire-in-premeditated-attack-a2920941.html

The armed man accused of attacking an Amsterdam-to-Paris train last week watched a YouTube video calling for Jihad before boarding the train, officials said today.

Alleged gunman Ayoub El-Khazzani watched the video on his cellphone, they added, which was activated the same day of the attack.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/train-attack-suspect-watched-video-calling-jihad-boarding/story?id=33301158

I wonder if he found that new phone with the guns and activated it then accidentally watched the jihad video while surfing for videos of kittens?

The man was placed on a watch list by French authorities after their Spanish counterparts flagged up his involvement with radical Islamists in February 2014.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34027439

The Islamic video he watched must have been about how to hold up a train for robbery, right.

 Orlanth wrote:
The Islamic video he watched must have been about how to hold up a train for robbery, right.

Yeah, purely for funding purposes.