The two young men tried since last Tuesday before the special assize court for minors in Paris for “participation in an association of terrorist criminals with a view to preparing one or more crimes of attacks on persons” are sentenced to 10 and 6 years in prison, France Bleu Armorique learned from corroborating sources.
G., the young man suspected of having imagined an attack on Roazhon Park is sentenced to 10 years in prison, at the end of the four days of trial. A sentence lower than the requisitions of the public prosecutor, who called for 12 years of imprisonment. For his lawyer, Jean-Guillaume Le Mintier, interviewed this Friday evening, it is a verdict “that we accept, this one taking into account at the same time the gravity of the facts but also the virtual character of the actions and the minority of the accused”.
G. had imagined an attack on Roazhon Park
In early 2018, G. was arrested when he wanted to leave for Syria. During searches at his home, theInvestigators had uncovered a plan of Roazhon Park, as well as aerial views and a paper document that referred to an attack on the SRFC stadium, but also the bar l’Equipe and the Carrefour City on rue de Lorient. Project considered if he could not leave France, and that he claimed to have given up.
a fair decision which gives our client prospects for the future “
His co-accused, R., is for his part sentenced to six years in prison, against the eight years required by the attorney general. This young man, who was chatting on the encrypted Telegram network with G. and jihadists present in the Syrian zone, was arrested the following year, in 2019. He had started translating propaganda from Arabic to French. Regarding potential plans for attacks, he admitted to investigators that he had “supported the idea of carrying out an attack”, and having offered his help to G., while ensuring never to have considered taking the act itself.
“It is a fair decision which gives our client prospects for the future”, react his advice Malcom Mouldaïa and Marie David-Bellouard. The two co-defendants have ten days to appeal the verdict.