The maximum sentence was required on Monday against the accused, judged for the murder of a young woman and an aborted attack against a church of Villejuif, in April 2015.
Le Monde with AFP
At the trial of the Algerian student Sid Ahmed Ghlam, the requisitions are the same as at first instance. The maximum sentence, either the perpetual criminal imprisonment, was required, Monday, October 25, against the accused, judged for the murder of a young woman and an aborted attack against a church of Villejuif (Val-de-Marne ), in April 2015.
The general lawyers wished that this sentence be accompanied by a security sentence of twenty-two years and a final prohibition of the French territory after his sentence. In first instance, Sid Ahmed Ghlam had been condemned exactly to that sentence.
Since then, the law has changed and provides for safety sentences of thirty years or effective perpetuity, have pointed out the general lawyers before the Paris Special Assize Court, but it can not apply to Sid Ahmed GHLAM, already judged before the promulgation of this law.
“Conferences who are not”
For the two general anti-terrorist lawyers (UNAT), Sid Ahmed Ghlam is a “man of extraordinary dangerous” which has a “devouting and paranoid” vision of his religion. “His goal was to sowing terror,” they supported. During his appeal trial, Ghlam “persevered in his lies in a perverse way”. “There is nothing to expect from him,” added the representatives of the UNAT. “He did not have the courage to assume his actions,” they deplored.
“The lie is part of its operation” and “it feeds a real hatred for the West,” they still said. Unlike its trial at first instance, Sid Ahmed Ghlam has recognized this time to have gone to Syria to meet Islamic state frameworks. He also admitted that he had intended to kill parishioners in a church of Villejuif before giving up his project.
“But these confessions are not. We were already convinced” that the accused had gone to Syria and that he wanted to commit a deadly attack in a church, said the general lawyers. In first instance, Mr. Ghlam recognized having met Islamic frameworks, but in Turkey, and he supported it’s just “to scare” to parishioners.
On appeal, he persisted to deny being the author of the assassination of Aurélie Châtelain, coldly slaughtered on a parking lot of Villejuif in order to steal his car. As at first instance, Sid Ahmed Ghlam argued that a mysterious accomplice, whose investigators found no trace, had killed the young mother of 32 years old.
Only the blood and DNA of Sid Ahmed Ghlam were found on the crime scene, recalled the general lawyers. After the assassination, Mr. Ghlam had accidentally injured himself in the thigh by putting his weapon back. This injury forced him to give up his attack project. Sid Ahmed Ghlam, 30 years old, remained most of the headowed head for the duration of the indictment.
“You are an assassin”
“You are the only one to rehabilitate you” had urged it, in vain, before the requisitions, the lawyer of the Châtelain family, Charles Merlen. Antoine Casubolo-Ferro, another lawyer of the Châtelain family, denounced for his part the “immonational and scandalous denial” of the accused. “Why did not Sid Ahmed Ghlam not confessed” the murder of Aurélie Châtelain during this trial?, Asked the lawyer. This is because in truth it has never come out of ideology [of the Islamic State]. “” You will be condemned [not] not because you are Muslim. You will be condemned because you are an assassin, “Considered Gérard Chemla, the last lawyer of the civil parties.
General lawyers had to pursue their evening requisitions against the five coaccused. Among these Figure Rabah Boukaouma, considered by the Prosecution as the “Chief Logistician” of the operation. In first instance, Mr. Boukaouma had been sentenced to thirty years of imprisonment including a two-thirds security period. Penalties of fifteen and twenty-five years of criminal imprisonment had been pronounced against two other accomplices of Ghlam, Abdelkader Jalal and Farid Brahami. The Defense will begin his pleadings on Tuesday. The verdict is expected Thursday or Friday.