Yeah, those were definitely performative crocodile tears. And you know his lawyers have advised him to play to his youth as part of their strategy to either get him acquitted or get him leniency.
If he gets acquitted his parents better have a way to get him out of the country. He killed a couple of anarchist. Unlike black people, who will cry and march, and protest, and write heart wrenching essays about the lack of justice, those anarchists will get vengeance in the absence of justice (maybe even with a guilty verdict) because they don't care if they burn the whole world down to do it. That's why they were there too.