Nearly eight years after the jihadist attacks on Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher, prosecutors on Tuesday sought life sentences and 20 years in prison for two defendants who were retried at an appeals court for their alleged roles in the attacks in Paris. The public prosecutor asked for the most severe sentence, life imprisonment with a security period of 22 years, for Ali Reza Polat, who is accused of complicity in the January 2015 crimes of Amedi Coulibaly and the Said brothers and Sherif Kouachi.
Ali Reza Polat, who was sentenced to thirty years in prison at the first instance in December 2020, “at the heart of the preparation for these monstrous murders“, assessed the general lawyer Manon Brinol, who emphasized.extremely dangerous37-year-old Franco-Turkish. “I am asking you to protect usHe appealed to the special court, demanding the maximum sentence against Mr. Polat, which was already demanded by the prosecution during the first trial.
Ali Reza Polat “right arm“By Amedi Coulibaly, who he was with”everywhere“and”until the last hour“, and has “provided decisive assistance to terrorists“Ms. Brinol was assisted in the search and supply of both material and weapons.
In the first part of the two-voice indictment, his partner in the prosecutor’s office, Delphine Thibierge, asked to sentence the second accused, Amar Ramdani, to twenty years in prison, two-thirds of the term. safety. For the prosecution, despite his denials, Amar Ramdani, another close associate of Coulibaly, supplied the weapons that “was used to killfive of the seventeen victims of the attacks.
During three days of terror from January 7 to 9, 2015, the Kouachi brothers and Emedy Coulibaly targeted freedom of speech, law enforcement, and the Jewish community.contacts“Although it is claimed by two separate organizations, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (Aqpah) and the Islamic State (IS). Their killing spree ended with their deaths in a double police raid.
The titanic investigation and debates, in the first and second instances, did not allow to eliminate all the gray areas surrounding the scope of the weapon that appeared in the possession of the three jihadists. The source of the assault rifles used by the Kouachi to carry out their massacre at the premises of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and to execute police officer Ahmed Merabet as they fled could not be ascertained.
Amed Coulibaly’s DNA was found on one of Kouachi’s Kalashnikovs, which “suggestsfor the charge that the future Hyper Cacher killer could provide them. Coulibaly’s weapons come from Lille traffickers who were convicted in a separate procedure. According to the public prosecutor, Amedi Coulibaly has “to be operated on” two separate supply chains, one from Lille, notably through Amar Ramdani, the other through Belgian, “very activeBy Ali Reza Polat.
In the absence of confessional statements and DNA traces linking the two men to the guns and assault rifles, the charges are largely based on the movements of the two defendants in northern France or the Charleroi region, revealed by an examination of their telephone communications. . At the end of the first trial, in which the present eleven defendants were sentenced to between four years and thirty years in prison, only Ali Reza Polat and Amar Ramdani, the most severely sentenced, had calls.
Amar Ramdani is on trial again at the age of 41 for a criminal terrorist organization. During often heated debates, he repeated that “nothing to do with guns, no islam, no terrorism“leading clear”friendship“With Amed Coulibaly, before”a prisoner“with whom he”had a good laugh“. Throughout the indictment, as he often did at trial, the accused kept his head in his box, giving the prosecution the impression that he wanted to “make people forget that he was very supportiveAmed Coulibaly. The defense side will make a statement on Wednesday, and the verdict is expected on Thursday evening.
Source: Le Figaro
