The 37-year-old Franco-Turkish was sentenced on Thursday October 20 to maximum sentence, life imprisonment accompanied by a twenty-year security sentence. On the other hand, that of Amar Ramdani, the second accused, was lightened.
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At the statement of the verdict, the first jumped pretending to leave, the second rushed to his bench as stunned. A little less than eight years after the January 2015 attacks, Ali Riza Polat was again found guilty of “complicity” of the crimes of the Kouachi brothers and Amedy Coulibaly and sentenced on appeal on Thursday, October 20, to the maximum penalty, The life imprisonment with a safety sentence of twenty years. He had been sentenced to thirty years’ imprisonment at first instance. Amar Ramdani, eighteen years of imprisonment at first instance, was this time sentenced to thirteen years in prison, including two thirds of security, for “association of criminal terrorist criminals”.
The Paris Special Assize Court, ruling on appeal, increased Mr. Polat’s sentence and therefore followed the requisitions of the general prosecutor’s office, which had asked him to “protect” the society of a man at the ” extreme danger “and” send a clear message “to those who would be” tempted to help a terrorist “.
Ali Riza Polat, a 37-year-old Franco-Turkish, had spoke one last time Thursday morning to repeat that he was “not a terrorist”. “I never woke up one morning to destroy the lives of these people,” he said. Presenting himself as a thug who “loves money”, this friend of Amedy Coulibaly, the killer of Montrouge and the Hyper Cacher, admitted to the audience having recovered a bag of weapons “rotten” – in fact Kalashnikovs and Tokarev pistols – in the summer of 2014, ensuring that they were intended for a “robbery” and not in Coulibaly, even if he hinted that the latter had seen them. “If I had provided arms, I would have assumed,” he said. “Make your decision, that’s all. But perpetuity … I killed anyone. I’m not Coulibaly.”
This confession on a transport of arms, one of the rare new facts revealed by the appeal hearing, weighed in the increase in his sentence. “The nature of these weapons can only sign an obvious will of violent action,” said the president of the court, Jean-Christophe Hullin, making the deliberation.
the “impossible defense” ‘Ali Riza Polat
Wednesday, the defense of Ali Reza Polat called the court to “rigor”, believing that the “hypotheses” presented by the accusation on the recovery of weapons via two sectors used by Amedy Coulibaly, one Lille , the other Belgian could not constitute “evidence” of guilt. But, m e Rachid Madid had immediately recognized it, “it is an impossible defense” that that of Polat.
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