At first instance, Sid-Ahmed Ghlam was sentenced to exactly this sentence.
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The maximum sentence, namely life imprisonment, was required Monday, October 25 against Algerian student Sid-Ahmed Ghlam on appeal for the murder of a young woman and an abortive attack on a church in Villejuif. (Val-de-Marne) in April 2015.
The advocates general wanted this sentence to be accompanied by a security sentence of 22 years and a definitive ban from French territory at the end of his sentence. On appeal, Sid-Ahmed Ghlam persisted in denying being the author of the assassination of Aurélie Chatelain, coldly shot in a parking lot in Villejuif in order to steal her car.
As in the first instance, Sid-Ahmed Ghlam maintained that a mysterious accomplice, of which the investigators did not find any trace, had killed the young mother aged 32.
Contrary to his trial at first instance, Sid-Ahmed Ghlam admitted having traveled to Syria to meet with ISIS officials and admitted that he had intended to kill parishioners in a church in Villejuif. before giving up his project.
“But these confessions are not. We were already convinced” that the accused had traveled to Syria and wanted to carry out a deadly attack on a church, the attorneys general said. The two attorneys general of the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat) also requested sentences of 15, 25 and 30 years in prison against the three main co-defendants of Sid-Ahmed Ghlam.
The defense will begin its oral arguments on Tuesday. The verdict is expected Thursday or Friday.
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