Seven years after double murder of a couple of police officers at their home in Magnanville (Yvelines), on trial opens this Monday, September 25 before the Paris Assize Court. Back to this terrible news itemwhich had sparked a great excitement In France.
A sinister attack
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It is June 13, 2016. France has been experiencing for several months a wave of attacks
. And this one particularly marked the minds of many fellow citizens, both horror is important.
Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, 42, and his partner, Jessica Schneider, 36, were both police officers. The deputy commander and the administrative agent were brutally stabbed ten times by Larossi Abballa, 25, claiming his act in the name of the Islamic State. When they returned home, the couple discovered that someone was waiting for them, lurking in the shadows. It was the terrorist, equipped with a White weapon by hand.
But in this sinister storyone person managed to escape, not without psychological aftereffect : their 3-year-old son, who witnessed theassassination of his parents. Worse: he was detained in hostage by Larossi Abballa, until the arrival of RAID. Threatening the childthe terrorist had even filmed himself live on social networks wondering if he was going to keep the child alive. “I have just killed a policeman and I have just killed his wife and behind me is the little one. I don’t know what I’m going to do with him yet“he declares on Facebook as revealed by our colleagues at The New Republic
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During RAID’s intervention, the terrorist already convicted in 2013 for “criminal association with a terrorist enterprise” was shot with 22 bullets. The son, in state of astonishmentwas found safe and sound on the first floor.
An accomplice judged in the coming days
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But did Larossi Abballa have accomplices ? Betrayed by his DNA found on the wrist rest of the family computer, Mohamed Lamine Aberouz, a childhood friend of the killeris considered to this day to be the only partner in crime of the terrorist. This 30-year-old Franco-Moroccan would have participated in the ideological indoctrination of the assassin, to whom he would have designated the couple of police officers as being future targets of the attack.
7 years after the events, his trial opens this Monday, September 25 until October 10 before the special assize court from Paris. He is currently being prosecuted for “terrorism”, “complicity in the assassination of persons holding public authority”, “complicity in the kidnapping of a 15-year-old minor” and “participation in a terrorist criminal association with a view to preparing of a crime of personal injury”.
Mohamed Lamine Aberouz denies complicity in assassinations which he is accused of, claiming to have gone to a prayer room on the evening of the attack. Furthermore, no one can confirm his statements and the same evening of the attack, he deleted his account Telegram And turn off your phonemaking it impossible telephone boundary. For the judges in charge of the investigation, these two elements are the sign that he wanted to make disappear evidence that could incriminate him.
Today he incurs life imprisonment And does not appear free in court. In 2021, it was sentenced to 5 years for “failure to report a terrorist crime” during a foiled attack by a commando of women determined to explode, on September 4, 2016, a car located in the Notre-Dame square.
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