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Farmer on Trial Defends Smuggling Migrants: ‘I Am a Frenchman.’
NICE, France — At times it was hard to know who was on trial, the smuggler or the state.
The defendant, Cédric Herrou, 37, a slightly built olive farmer, did not deny that for months he had illegally spirited dozens of migrants through the remote mountain valley where he lives.
He would do…