Already sentenced for providing a two jihadist apartment of 13-November, including the Operational Officer of Attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, Jawad Bendaoud, Jawad Bendaoud will have to pay damages to the victims, decided the Court of Cassation.
Le Monde with AFP
It is the epilogue of a judicial order of more than five years who had started with a relaxation. Finally condemned for providing an apartment with two jihadists of the June 13, 2015 attacks, Jawad Bendaoud will have to pay damages to the victims of the attacks and their relatives, decided on Tuesday, February 15, the Court of Cassation.
The high court, however, annulled the damage and interests he had been sentenced to pay to the tenants and owners of the building of Saint-Denis, where the police had given the assault on November 18, 2015 and during which the two jihadists died, whose operating chief of attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
In 2018, Jawad Bendaoud had been sentenced to four years in prison for “recel of terrorist criminal”. The multi-cucidivist offender had rented a squat in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) for three nights, for 150 euros, two jihadists of the commando of the attacks.
“Can not rely on his statements”
The Court of Appeal motivated his judgment by the fact that the young man was guilty of providing the apartment having allowed Abdelhamid Abaaoud, one of the brains of the attacks, and to another jihadist, Belgo-Moroccan Chakib Akrouh, to have a hideie closest to the capital, while all police services were at their kits. Unlike other members of the commando, the two terrorists had not exploded in Kamikazes at the evening of 13-November.
The judicial investigations have shown that they probably intended to pursue the massacres, by committing another attack, the following days, possibly in the business district of the Defense. The apartment that Jawad Bendaoud was attended by a radicalized young woman, Hasna Aït Boulahcen, 26, could have allowed them to pass more easily to the act. It is only the assault of the raid, on November 18, 2015, which prevented them.
To defend himself, Jawad Bendaoud has always claimed that he did not know he accommodated jihadists. As proof, in particular, the fact that there were intermediaries between him and the terrorists. But the Court of Appeal felt that it was “impossible to rely on his statements”.