Wednesday 23, two witnesses to the report quite distant with the facts judged at the Assize Court specially composed of Paris were auditioned. On one side, a successful disengagement, on the other, a process not yet engaged.
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One speaks, the other mumbles, one broke with jihadist ideology, the other, it is allowed to doubt it. The two went through the prison, but the result is radically different. Wednesday, February 23 afternoon, two witnesses followed each other at the bar of the trial of the bombing of the Church of Saint-Etienne du Rouvray (Seine-Maritime), in which the priest Jacques Hamel had been murdered at the knife by two young jihadists, Abdel-Malik Petitjean and Adel Kermiche, before being themselves killed by the police on July 26, 2016. At the Assize Court specially composed of Paris, these two witnesses perfectly illustrate the difference between what the Successful deradictors – specialists prefer the term disengagement – and another not yet engaged.
Yann H. and Cherif (the first name of the second has been modified because his conviction goes back to a time when he was a minor) have only a fairly distant report with the facts judged at trial. The first frequented the accused Jean-Philippe Jean Louis, who animated a Telegram chain making the apology of Jihad and was in close contact with Abdel-Malik Petitjean before the attack at the church of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray. The second had tried to leave in Syria with Adel Kermiche in May 2015, but both were arrested at Istanbul Airport and returned to France.
Yann H. At 26, he identifies Jean-Philippe Jean Louis as “a person involved in the propaganda of the [Organization] Islamic State in an intensive way”, “a reference” that he met “two or Three times “at the Lagny-sur-Marne Mosque (Seine-et-Marne). Interrogated by the President on the possible willingness of the accused to commit an attack, he assured that Jean Louis “was more motivated to leave that to commit an attack”. “It was a subject that was evoked to be able to leave, live a better life under the religion of the Islamic State”, but “without concrete plan”. “It was a fantasy,” said Yann H., for whom there is no doubt that on the spot, what was waiting for them was the “fight” and not a humanitarian action.
“I had only the Internet”
“But if someone had told him that he wanted to take an attack, he would have encouraged it?” Insinaded the judge on interrogative mode. “It was spoken like that, with fun, with friends, pursues the young man. But there was really no target defined.” Order in 2018 and sentenced in March 2021 to three years in prison for “Association of terrorist criminal criminal “by the Assize Court of Paris, the young man spent nearly three years in pre-trial detention.
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