The accused Jean-Philippe Steven Jean Louis acknowledges having spread the jihadist speech. But it ensures not to be aware of the attack in preparation.
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When he speaks, Jean-Philippe Steven Jean Louis has a permanent smile. “I’m like that. I do not know if it’s psychological or physiological. For someone who does not know me, it can be a little embarrassing, but that does not mean that I make fun of myself,” A-T -It explained to one of the two general lawyers who surprised, Friday, March 4, at the Special Assize Court of the Paris Court to judge the attack of Saint-Etienne-du Rouvray (Seine-Maritime) , committed on July 26, 2016.
Jean-Philippe Steven Jean Louis is not accused of playing a role in this attack but to have participated in a “terrorist criminal association” with two other accused present in the box and the two assassins of the Father Hamel, Adel Kermiche and Abdel-Malik Petitjean, killed on the spot, as well as Rachid Kassim, a framework of the Associated State Organization (EI) died in Iraq in 2017.
Last of the three accused to be interviewed, Jean Louis, today 25 years old, is the one who has explicitly recognized what is criticized for him. “The mere fact of having done that [of propaganda], I know it’s serious. I do not know at what level I could have impacted [the civil parties]. I ask them forgiveness,” A-T -He declared.
“I was a totally immature person”
Yes, he sought to go to Syria – to join, “he said, a certain Hanane and make humanitarian – with Petitjean, before being expelled upon his arrival in Istanbul, in June 2016. Yes, he has been a propagandist of the EI by administering the Telegram Ansar Al-Tawhid chain (“partisans of uniqueness”). Yes, he has collected money through online Cagsottes to help individuals of the Jihadist movement without knowing what they did. He rejects, on the other hand, the subtraction of minor who is reproached for him in 2015: he believes that the boy was voluntary to leave in Syria and played a marginal role.
As Jean Louis does not fundamentally dispute the facts, the debates focused on his conception of religion, in order to assess whether he has evolved on this point and his dangerousness. “I was a totally immature person. I grew more during those six years in detention that throughout my life,” says the accused. His conception of Islam remains very fundamentalist, although he “does not think to be radical”. The young man could show white paw, but he refuses to say something that does not correspond to his convictions, even if to make a bad impression.
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