Yassine Sebaihia, Farid Khelil and Jean-Philippe Steven Jean Louis are pursued for merciful association with the two terrorists killed at the knife attack against Father Hamel, in 2016. The Crown refuted the argument according to which they would be mere emissary goats.
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It is a gradual indictment that was pronounced by the Crown, Monday, March 7, at the trial of the Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray (Seine-Maritime) attack. Severe on the bottom, balanced in the quantum of the sorrows requested. General lawyers, Saliha Hand Ouali and Marine Valentin, have required respectively seven, nine and fourteen years of criminal imprisonment against Yassine Sebaihia, Farid Khelil and Jean-Philippe Steven Jean Louis, all three accused of “association of terrorist criminal” – punishable Thirty years of inclusion – with the two authors of the murderer with Father Jacques Hamel, on July 26, 2016 in his church of the commune of the suburbs of Rouen. The longest penalties, the nine-year-old for Khelil and the fourteen-year-old for Jean Louis, are accompanied by a request for seniority of two-thirds.
The two terrorists, Abdel-Malik Petitjean and Adel Kermiche, then aged 19, had been killed on the spot by the police. A parishioner, Guy Coponet, 87 years old at the time of the facts, had been seriously injured with the knife too. A sentence of perpetuity criminal imprisonment was also required against “the instigator” of the attack, Rachid Kassim, a Franco-Algerian framework of the Islamic State Organization (EI), accused of “complicity of terrorist assassination” in This trial, but presumed dead in a air bombardment in February 2017 in Iraq.
The whole difficulty, for the public prosecutor, was to make the link between an attack that shocked the whole world and three small-scale accused, who did not play a role in his fulfillment, but belonging to the Family or ideological entourage of authors. The two general lawyers have done it brilliantly. Before detailing its requisitions for each of the accused, M me Hand Ouali wanted to render “a tribute supported by victims” including dignity and humanity, in particular those of the survivor Guy Coponet and Roseline Hamel, the murdered priest’s sister, illuminated the audience.
“A failure”
In response to frustration, expressed by several lawyers of the civil parties in the morning, not having been able to make all the light on the shadows surrounding the attack of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, the general lawyer addressed the controversy around the Intelligence Directorate of the Paris Police Prefecture (DRPP) that had failed, on July 22, 2016, four days before the attack, a note Identifier Adel Kermiche as the administrator of a Telegram chain threatening to commit attacks, especially against churches.
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