If the accused was sentenced to the heaviest sentence of the penal code, it was not for the assassination of 130 civilians. In law, only the attempted murders on police officers committed by his accomplices at Bataclan justified real perpetuity.
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Salah Abdeslam will have captured all the light during these ten months of audience. And it is without big surprise on him that lightning fell on the day of the verdict: fourteen accused who appeared at the trial of the attacks of November 13, he is the only one to have been condemned on Wednesday, June 29, Criminal imprisonment with incompressible perpetuity, which makes any hope of liberation tiny.
By pronouncing the maximum sentence provided for by the penal code, justice has indicated its inflexibility in the face of the officials of jihadist terrorism who has mourned France since 2015. If the court has shown itself more lenient than the requisitions for ten accused, She was relentless against the first of them.
It was even further than the public prosecutor concerning two thinking heads of the attacks, presumed dead in Syria and judged in absence: Jean-Michel and Fabien Clain, the authors of the demand messages, against which had been required perpetuity Assorted by a period of security of twenty-two, also, like Salah Abdeslam, was sentenced to real life.
But behind this highly symbolic sentence pronounced after a trial for history hides a paradox: in law, Salah Abdeslam was not sentenced to maximum sentence for the terrorist assassination of 130 people . If it faces real perpetuity, it is with regard to an offense of ordinary law: the attempted murders against police officers committed by three of his accomplices in Bataclan.
“a unique scene of crime “
At the time of the attacks of November 13, terrorist crimes against civilians were “only” liable to perpetuity with a safety of twenty-two years. When the real perpetuity was introduced into the penal code in 1994, it only aimed at murder authors with rape, torture or barbarism act on minors. It was then extended, in 2011, to murders or attempts at a person depositary of the public authority (police, magistrates …) before being, in June 2016, to terrorist crimes.
The law not being retroactive, the real perpetuity did not apply to the terrorist assassinations of civilians committed on November 13. If this sentence was pronounced against Salah Abdeslam, it is only because of the attempted murders against police officers committed in the Bataclan.
Yet Salah Abdeslam has never been at Bataclan. But the only survivor of commandos is considered to be “co-author” of all the crimes committed that night, the court considering “that the various targets referred to on November 13, 2015 must be analyzed as a unique crime scene” explained President Jean-Louis Périès.
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