brother abdelkader merah is accused of stealing is good involved in the attack. is also accused of giving merah a weapon. what do we expected here from the prosecution this afternoon? the hearings have been going on now for the last four weeks. the trial is beginning to draw to a close. from the state prosecutor, we expect her to make her closing arguments this monday afternoon and make her request for recommendations to the judge as to what punishment she believes he should hand down to abdelkad er merah. and the prosecution lawyers for the civil party, the victims' families, have been trying to portray abdelkader oneh as the director, lawyer saying he was the head of the operation, while his younger brother, mohamed merah, was the on that carried it out. sameed merah's lawyer is as here in france. his job is to discredit that portrayal of his client. he says his client was not a religious fanatic, and that there is not enough material evidence to prove beyond reasonable doubt that his client was an accomplice. >> what arguments have been outlined so far from ei

a scooterode provided by abdelkader merah. intnterview in an with french television -- their brother, in an interview with french television, has spoken out against them. in 2003. authorities i told them the day there is an attack, you will not need to go far. it will be one of my brothers. the father of three of those killed remains devastated. >> i have always seen them as a waste of nature that should rot in a prison cell. nothing will bring my son and grandchildren back, so i do not care if he is found guilty or not. reporter: mohamed merah was finally killed in a police raid on his apartment in toulouse after a 33-hour police each. to bellings are likely seen as the beginning of a wave of terror attacks in france. >> you are watching france 24. just to bring you up-to-date on a developing story out of las vegas, what has turned into the in u.s.t mass shooting history -- at least two people pronounced dead from that shooting in las vegas last night. the shootingred in spree at an outdoor country music concert. the suspect,