Found guilty of providing “logistical and ideological support” to the terrorist Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, they received the same sentence as at first instance.
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The court upheld the trial judgment. Sentences of 18 years of criminal imprisonment, accompanied by a two-thirds security sentence, were handed down on Thursday June 13 by the Special Assize Court of Paris against the two accused tried on appeal at the trial of Nice attack, which left 86 dead, on July 14, 2016.
Prosecuted for “terrorist criminal association”, Mohamed Ghraieb, a 48-year-old Franco-Tunisian hotel receptionist, and Chokri Chafroud, 44, an undocumented Tunisian migrant, brought “logistical and ideological support” to the terrorist, affirmed the court at the end of its deliberations.
The court did not follow the requisitions of the attorney general, who had requested 20 years of imprisonment against the two accused, who accepted the sentence without a word. In the evening, one of Mohamed Ghraeib’s lawyers, Vincent Brengarth, told BFM Nice Côte d’Azur that his client is appealing to the Court of Cassation. The decision regarding the second accused is not known, but the two men have five days to appeal to the Court of Cassation.
Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlelthe 31-year-old Tunisian author of the ram truck attack on the Promenade des Anglais, was killed by the police.
