Trial of alleged mastermind of Bali bombing, adds security

Описание: (2 Jun 2003)

1. Dawn shot - soldiers at gate of court building
2. Police searching at dawn in court grounds
3. Woman police officer at desk writing
4. Police arriving at court, climbing off back of police truck
5. People, journalists queueing to have bags checked
6. Various bags of people and bags being checked
7. Man being frisked
8. Samudra being led by police to armoured personnel carrier outside police headquarters in Bali
9. Two police outside court
10. Police armoured personnel carrier arriving outside court
11. Samudra getting out of APC
13. Interior - Samudra being lead to seat
14. Samudra sitting down, UPSOUND: Sumudra shouts "Allah Akbar" (God is great), defence lawyers (out of shot) respond with own cries of Allah Akbar (God is great)
15. Defence team
16. Prosecutor Nyoman Dili reading indictment
17. Wide court
18. SOUNDBITE (Bahasa Indonesia) Nyoman Dili, Chief Prosecutor
"The suspect has planned on purpose terrorist acts with violence or threatened to use violence which caused massive casualties by taking people's freedom or loss of life and taking people's belongings or causing damages or destroying primary objects or public facilities."
19. Court close circuit television shot of Samudra sitting in chair
20. Exterior - banner reading, 'Welcome Justice'
21. Exterior - various people and police watching screens with court proceedings
22. Screen with court pictures of Samudra
23. SOUNDBITE (Bahasa Indonesia) Vox pop, Local
"I hope by the detention of the suspect, the court will do its job properly and these suspects will be punished heavily."
24. Interior court, wide of proceedings
25. Samudra with papers
26. Judge banging gavel
27. Samudra being led out of court room by police
28. Defence lawyer Mahendra Tta talking to reporter in court
29. SOUNDBITE (English) Mahendra Tta, Defence lawyer
"We have confidence that this trial will go smoothly because everybody looks like preparing proper enough. But for
fairly I cannot make any judgement regarding the fair or unfair today."
30. APC carrying Samudra leaving court

STORYLINE:

The trial of the alleged mastermind of the Bali bombings got underway on Monday, amid tight security.

Imam Samudra, 32, is charged with planning and executing the October 12 attacks, that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.

He is suspected of being a key figure in the al-Qaida-linked terror group Jemaah Islamiyah, which has been blamed for carrying out the bombings.

The Afghanistan-trained militant known for his hatred of America was taken to the court from Bali's police headquarters in an armoured personnel carrier.

As Samudra sat down to hear the indictment, he looked over to his nine lawyers and shouted "God is Great!" three times.

They responded with smiles and cheers.

After this outburst, Samudra, who was dressed in a white loose fitting shirt and wearing an Islamic prayer cap, sat impassively.

Samudra's defence team demanded judges throw out the case, arguing that their client should not be tried under recently passed anti-terror laws because they were put in place after the bombings.

Several relatives of Australian victims of the attack sat in the front row of the court to witness the proceedings, but few Balinese attended the trial.

Like many of the other 33 suspects arrested over the bombings, Samudra's lawyers and police say he confessed to playing a role in the nightclub bombings.

If found guilty, he could be executed under anti-terror laws passed in the weeks after the bombings. Samudra is the second suspect to go on trial over the bombings.








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