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"Its gonna bled on the 17th": the anti-terrorism prosecution requests a trial for four people

2020-11-29T15:42:59.075Z


The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (Pnat) has requested a criminal trial for four " radicalized " people suspected of having considered a robbery on the first day of the " yellow vests " demonstrations in 2018 whose terrorist nature they dispute, AFP has learned Sunday from a source close to the case. Read also: Islamism: how investigators track down those who advocate terrorism on t


The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (Pnat) has requested a criminal trial for four "

radicalized

" people suspected of having considered a robbery on the first day of the "

yellow vests

" demonstrations

in 2018 whose terrorist nature they dispute, AFP has learned Sunday from a source close to the case.

Read also: Islamism: how investigators track down those who advocate terrorism on the web

“It's

going bled on the 17th

”: on November 8, 2018, Rémi M., sends this SMS to a correspondent.

Five days later, five people, including the four for whom the Pnat is asking for a trial, are arrested.

Opened at the end of August, the anti-terrorism investigation has just changed.

On France 2, in the following March, Christophe Castaner, then Minister of the Interior, explains: “

A few days before the start of the yellow vests movement, a group was formed and was entitled 'Ca va blele le 17 ', it was a terrorist attack and we neutralized it

”.

"

Its gonna bled on the 17th

"?

Of "

humor

", will assure in front of the investigators, Remi M., unemployed, and who quickly erased the messages, according to the final indictment of the Pnat of October 26, consulted by AFP.

The reconstruction of the exchange suggests that it is part of a discussion where Rémi M. was annoyed with spare part prices for his car.

It prevents.

For the Pnat, Rémi M., Kevin B., and two brothers, Kamel and Hillal A., have “

prepared a draft violent act on the national territory

”.

He therefore requests their referral to the criminal court for "

criminal association with a view to preparing an act of terrorism

", an offense punishable by ten years in prison.

The decision is now up to the investigating judge in charge of the case.

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Despite planning "

not very successful

" and "

blurred outlines

", the Pnat believes that the four men had well prepared a robbery project, "

had already considered a place

", a bank in Saint-Etienne subject to tracking, and a "

Modality of action

", namely "

attack on a distributor or a van

".

In front of the investigators, the four implicated all deny the existence of a plan of attack, but "

all end up recognizing the existence of the project of robbery

", specifies the prosecution.

However, for the Pnat, these four men were evolving "

in a context of advanced radicalization

" and "

fascination with jihad

".

If the money was indeed "the

engine of the project

", the Pnat believes, on the basis of their declarations, that this project was intended to take this money "

from the 'dogs' in a violent manner in order to' punish 'them and' folding (society) from A to Z '

”, hence the terrorist nature retained for this project.

The "yellow vests" not targeted

At the material time, Kevin B., 27, was in prison for "

terrorist association

" and was considered "

radicalized

".

The Pnat thus underlines that on September 12, 2018, he "

tried to make his son recite the Koran who, given his very young age

", two years old at the time, "

was only capable of issuing rumbling.

"

The two brothers, Hillal and Kamel A., aged 25 and 36, already convicted in the past, also show "

an attraction for jihad

", according to the Pnat.

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Rémi M. presents him with a different profile: aged 54, his criminal record is empty.

If he is converted to Islam and also considered "

radicalized

" (he will declare during the investigation that he "

no longer likes France

", "

hates her

"), an evaluation report underlines his "

malleable personality

”.

"

He thought he found meaning in this group

" which "

values ​​him

".

Me Léa Dordilly, lawyer for Hillal A., is pleased to see "

the prosecution concede so that there was in reality never a question of a terrorist attack targeting yellow vests

".

For her, "

considering robbing an ATM is a common law project, the profile of its authors is not enough to make it a terrorist project

."

His colleague, Louise Dumont Saint Priest, lawyer for Kevin B., finds that the Pnat's requisitions come "

in a sense, to confirm what we have always said about the absence of a terrorist goal of a possible action

".

Source: lefigaro

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