The appeal trial for the January 2015 attacks ended with a harsh verdict on Thursday. Life imprisonment with 20 years security for Ali Reza Polat (first instance sentence of 30 years), accomplice of Hyper Catcher anti-Semitic killer Amedi Coulibaly. and the Quachi brothers; 13 years of criminal imprisonment, including two-thirds of security for Amar Ramdani (detained in this case since March 2015, sentenced to 18 years at first instance), 41, convicted of association of terrorist offenders (AMT) for passing a motorcade. weapons intended for a fanatical killer between northern France and Paris.
Ali Reza Polat was “at the heart of the preparation for these monstrous murders“, he has “provided decisive assistance to terroristsGeneral Counsel Manon Brinol showed on Wednesday, emphasizing.extremely dangerous37-year-old Franco-Turk and demands the heaviest punishment. During the examination of the appeal complaint, a disturbing fact was revealed, which had remained unnoticed until then: a search was made on the GPS of Mr. Polat, who did not give an explanation in this matter, at the address of 50 Boulevard Voltaire; The Bataclan, the scene of the massacre on November 13, 2015… An element that could have prompted the judges to increase the sentence in the trial court.
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His partner, Delphine Thibierge, had sought a maximum sentence of twenty years in prison, with two-thirds suspended, against Amar Ramdani, who had been in prison with Coulibaly. It was therefore not followed by the magistrates composing the court. The prosecution, despite its denials and shortcomings in the investigation on this important point; The provenance of the Kouachi armory could not be ascertained, and the period attributed to Coulibaly does not seem to be based on indisputable evidence; he really provided. weapons that “was used to killfive of the seventeen victims of the attacks. During the debates, he repeated that “nothing to do with guns, no islam, no terrorism“, conceding a”friendship“With Amed Coulibaly, before”prison mate“with whom he”had a good laugh“. In fact, the radicalization of this recidivist is not confirmed, but it is not necessary to defend AMT’s conviction. it is enough to consider that he could not be ignorant of Coulibaly’s designs.
Between January 7 and 9, 2015, the Kouachi brothers and Amedy Coulibaly attacked freedom of speech, law enforcement, and the Jewish community.contactsdespite being claimed by two separate organizations, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (Aqpah) and the Islamic State. At: Charlie Hebdo, the murder of police officers Ahmed Merabet and Clarissa Jean-Philippe, murder in a kosher supermarket in Port de Vincennes. Islamist barbarism had stunned France and the world. The three murderers were killed by law enforcement officers.
The first trial took place in the last quarter of 2020. Fourteen people were subsequently tried, including three on the run, including Coulibaly’s partner. At the end of the trial (AMT), three of the nine persons prosecuted were convicted under this article, the others were found guilty of common law offences. Only M.M. Polat and Ramdani appealed.
Source: Le Figaro
