This Franco-Moroccan was a close friend of Larossi Abballa, the terrorist who murdered police officer Jean-Baptiste Salvaing and his partner Jessica Schneider in June 2016.
“He is in a dynamic of obvious violence.” At the trial of the Magnanville attack, the attorneys general requested, Tuesday, October 10, life imprisonment, accompanied by a security sentence of 22 years, against the only accused, Mohamed Lamine Aberouz. He is accused of being an accomplice in the attack perpetrated in 2016 by Larossi Abballa, who murdered Jean-Baptiste Salvaing and Jessica Schneider, a police couple at their home in Magnanville (Yvelines). The terrorist was killed by the police during the assault carried out by the Raid to free the child of the couple held hostage.
Throughout this two-part indictment, which lasted approximately two and a half hours, the representatives of the public prosecutor’s office strived to demonstrate the guilt of Mohamed Lamine Aberouz, whose DNA was found on Jean’s laptop. -Baptiste Salvaing and Jessica Schneider. He has been on trial since September 25 by the Paris Special Assize Court for complicity in the assassination of a person holding public authority, complicity in the kidnapping of a minor and criminal terrorist association, in the name of the Islamic State organization. . According to them, he was alongside Larossi Abballa on the evening of June 13, 2016, when the police couple was assassinated.
“Of course he’s guilty!”
One of the two general advocates wanted to summarize the charges against the accused. “When we bring together all the pieces of the puzzle, the adherence of Mohamed Lamine Aberouz to the theses of the Islamic State; the proximity with Larossi Abballa; the influence on Larossi Abballa; the methodology and knowledge of Mohamed Lamine Aberouz that we find in his video of claim; the DNA discovered at the crime scene; the possibility of an easy escape; the absence of an alibi; the destruction of evidence immediately after the attack; the evolving statements and inconsistencies in the statements… Obviously he is guilty!” exclaimed the magistrate, in front of a packed room.
“You have before you a person who has not even begun to reflect on the seriousness of the facts”pointed out this general advocate, the second to request, thus highlighting “protection of society”.
“Beyond the physical prison in which he finds himself, he has placed himself in a moral prison, from which he will not escape.”
A general counselbefore the special assize court of Paris
At the end of the indictment, the magistrate turned to the family of the two police officers murdered during this attack to greet them. While the accused spoke calmly for several minutes with one of his lawyers, who will plead for his acquittal on Tuesday afternoon.