Houssame Hatri, on the run when he was sentenced in 2018 to 16 years in prison for an anti-Semitic attack with rape in Créteil in 2014, was arrested at the end of July in Algeria, we learned on Wednesday from sources familiar with the case and the judiciary. The 24-year-old young man, originally from Créteil and of Franco-Algerian nationality, was arrested on July 23 by the Algerian police in Maghnia (north-west) and imprisoned, according to the source close to the file.
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He will be retried in Algeria - which does not extradite its nationals like the vast majority of countries - for this crime, she said. The fugitive had been located in Maghnia in February thanks to the eavesdropping and surveillance carried out with his entourage by French investigators from the National Fugitive Search Brigade (BNRF), seized in January.
On December 1, 2014, Laurine and her then-companion Jonathan, of Jewish faith, had been assaulted by three men, who had tied them up, gagged them before searching the apartment in search of cash, on the pretext that " the Jews, that does not put the money in the bank ”and threatening to“ kill ”them. The young woman had been raped by one of them.
Government's "national cause"
Houssame Hatri had amused himself by dropping knives on Jonathan's back “ for (his) brothers in Palestine ”, before throwing the Jewish symbols to the ground and proposing to “ gas ” them with tear gas. At the time, the aggression caused a stir among the Jewish community and the political class. The then Minister of the Interior Bernard Cazeneuve then made the fight against racism and anti-Semitism a “ national cause ” of the government.
At the beginning of July 2018, the Assize Court of Val-de-Marne sentenced the three attackers to respectively 8, 13 and 16 years of criminal imprisonment, Houssame Hatri receiving the heaviest sentence. " France must denounce the facts to Algeria, send the file to be translated and Algeria to judge it again. All this will take a little time, ”said the judicial source.