The presiding judge coughed a little and very quietly asked me if I had anything to add. I stood up and since I wanted to say something, I said, rather confusedly, that I hadn’t intended to kill the Arab. The presiding judge replied that I had always made that claim but that, up until now, he had found it difficult to understand my defence and that he would be happy, before hearing my lawyer, to have me explain in detail what had motivated me to commit my crime. I said rather quickly, muddling up my words a bit and completely aware of how ridiculous I sounded, that it was because of the sun.
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