This was probably a positioning flight with crew only, and I suspect that what happened here was a Captain showing off to the crew who were sitting in the cockpit for the landing, or being goaded into a fully manual approach, but screwing it up through lack of practice or ability, and/or forgetting that he had taken out the auto-thrust as well as the auto-pilot.
The aircraft got slower and slower, and the wings lost lift, so he gradually raised the nose to maintain the RoD.
At a very late stage he at last checked the IAS and realised an imminent stall, or there was an actual stall, so he pushed the nose down and selected TOGA thrust, with predictable results.
The report's conclusions says that the Airbus safety parameters such as Ground speed mini were not followed, and I suspect that this Captain was one of (too) many pilots who don't understand Airbus ground speed mini. He probably disregarded the IAS increases that it would have been commanding with the moderate strength and gusty wind on the approach, and did not increase thrust to follow the moving IAS bug, leaving him with absolutely no speed safety margin.
And then the company tried to cover up the crew's actions by transferring the CVR to another A321 to record a normal flight, before putting it back in the accident aircraft !!!!!!!!
It beggars belief.
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