The trial of the attack that cost Father Hamel in July 2016, was marked by humanity off standards of his civil parties. The Court has pronounced a measured verdict.
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The specially composed court of the Paris court sentenced, Wednesday, March 9, the three accused at the trial of the Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray Attack (Seine-Maritime) to prison sentences of Eight to thirteen – eight years for Yassine Sebaihia, ten for Farid Khelil and thirteen for Jean-Philippe Steven Jean Louis. The last two penalties are assorted by two-thirds security periods. The fourth accused, Rachid Kassim, judged in absentia and presumed died in a bombing in Iraq in 2017, was sentenced to the perpetuity imprisonment with a two-thirds security sentence as a “instigator” of the attack. Who cost the life of the priest Jacques Hamel, on July 26, 2016, and seriously wounded a parishioner, Guy Coponet, who miraculously survived.
Sebaihia, Khelil and Jean Louis, whose penalties have all been accompanied by a sociojudicial follow-up of five years after their detention, were judged for “Association of Criminal Terrorist” with the two authors of the Attack, Adel Kermiche and Abdel-Malik Petitjean, killed by the police at their exit of the church.
These three accused, nearby or ideologically in Kermiche and Petitjean, incurring thirty years of imprisonment, while being absolved from “complicity” in the attack.
“I still have a lot of way. “
The Court delivered a measured verdict, which corresponds to the requisitions of the public prosecutor. In the morning who preceded the verdict statement, the accused had one last time. Yassine Sebaihia, who had joined the two terrorists in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray 48 hours before their attack to leave a night later, repeated that he had “never wanted to participate in an attack” and “never wanted Go to Syria “. He said “struggled by what happened”. Old 27 years old, he took advantage of his detention to take courses and obtain diplomas, catching up for lost time during idle and chaotic schooling. He assured that he has operated a “radical change of direction” in his life and want to “live serenely like everyone else”.
Farid Khelil, who wanted to leave in Syria with his cousin Abdel-Malik Petitjean and ceased to galvanize himself in his extremism, “apologized” to the civil parties, of which he pointed out “l humanism “who will mark it for life.” He explained to have “heard” the message of Sister Danielle, one of the nuns present in the church on July 26, 2016: “Let’s get up, be a man!” She wrote in a letter read by counsel Catherine Fabre. “It’s been six years since I’m straightening. I still have a lot of way left,” said Farid Khelil, who asked for a “second chance”.
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