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Project of robbery during Act I of the yellow vests: four radicalized men tried

2021-01-21T16:22:28.014Z


The defendants had been referred to the Paris Criminal Court for "criminal association with a view to preparing an a


They were initially suspected of having wanted to commit an attack during Act 1 of the yellow vests in 2018. Four “radicalized” Muslims finally appear from Friday in Paris for a robbery, whose terrorist nature they dispute.

The defendants, who must be tried for a week before the 16th chamber of the criminal court, had been arrested four days before the first national meeting of the movement, on November 17, 2018. In March 2019, on France 2, the minister of l Interior Christophe Castaner said at the time that a "terrorist attack" had at the time been "neutralized".

Wiretapped

Two brothers, Kamel (37 years old) and Hillal A. (25 years old), as well as Kevin B. (27 years old), who was serving at the time of the offenses a sentence for terrorist association, and Rémi M. (54 years old), were successively wiretapped after the opening of an investigation at the end of August 2018.

In this context, a conversation was intercepted in particular, during which Rémi M. affirmed that it was necessary to "organize" for the "general strike" of November 17: "This is where we must act [... ] when all the cops are on the road, ”he said.

"We are going to punish these dogs", replied Kamel A.

The investigators had also noted an SMS sent to a correspondent by Rémi M. on November 8 with the words "its going bled on the 17th".

Of "humor", had assured the latter after his arrest - the reconstruction of the exchange rather suggesting that he was annoyed with the price of spare parts for his car.

"We forced the terrorist coloring", according to the defense

The four men have always denied any plan to attack, but they finally admitted having considered robbing conveyors or a distributor, with a first "spotting" carried out around a bank in Saint-Etienne.

And for the prosecution, the conversations and the use of the phones of the defendants show that they were "strongly radicalized and close to the theses" of the Islamic State group - the "preparation of a violent action" being considered "as an alternative to la

hijra

”(emigration to a land of Islam).

Initially indicted for criminal terrorist association, a qualification that falls under the assizes, they were finally dismissed for "criminal association with a view to preparing an act of terrorism", an offense punishable by ten years in prison.

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"The question is to know if a little radicalized profiles are enough to switch a semblance of a common law project into a terrorist project", estimated Hillal A.'s lawyer, Me Léa Dordilly.

"It is a common law offense where we forced the terrorist coloring, a project of robbery of DAB (

Editor's note: automatic cash dispenser

) very little succeeded", also estimated Me Simon Clémenceau, lawyer of Kamel A.

Source: leparis

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