The defense lawyers of Mohamed Aberouz, convicted of complicity of the terrorist, denounce the sentence to which their client was sentenced.
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Seven years after the attack which cost the lives of two police officers, murdered at their home in Magnanville in Yvelines, Mohamed Aberouz was sentenced Wednesday October 11 to life imprisonment, with a 22-year security period, found guilty of complicity with the terrorist.
It is an “inhumane” sentence for the defense lawyers. They will appeal, believing that the trial was not fair: “The questions asked of him were not for the prosecution and exculpation, as is the case for any citizen, says one of his lawyers, Vincent Brengarth. Someone was convicted of complicity when we don’t even know what he allegedly did at the scene. A jurisdiction writes history, and also rehabilitates the terrorist Larossi Abballa.”
“In every respect, this is an outrageous decision.”
Vincent Brengarth, one of Mohamed Aberouz’s lawyersat the end of the hearing
When the president announced his conviction, Mohamed Aberouz collapsed, faced with the families of the victims torn between the wish to regain calm and the satisfaction of seeing this man convicted. Thibault de Montbrial, the lawyer for the mother and sister of Jessica Schneider, one of the two victims, would like to welcome the court’s decision: “In the fight against Islamist terrorism, with this sentence of criminal imprisonment, it is a slightly better world for Jessica’s family, other families, but also French citizens and their police.”
For the Court, there is no doubt that it is indeed the DNA of Mohamed Aberouz that the investigators found among the victims. A man who has no alibi, totally devoted to the cause of the Islamic State, the anti-terrorism judges decided.