Two Mauritanian and Malian jihadists were sentenced to death Wednesday, October 28 by the Malian justice for having committed the attacks of the Radisson Blu hotel and the bar-restaurant La Terrasse, which bloodied Bamako in 2015, after two days of a trial placed under high security.
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Initially, the Antiterrorist Assize Court, made up of five professional judges, delivered a guilty verdict against Mauritanian Fawaz Ould Ahmed, known as “
Ibrahim 10
”, and his Malian co-accused Sadou Chaka.
In accordance with the Malian judicial system, the prosecutor Boubacar Sidiki Samake then spoke again and demanded the death penalty for the two men, which has not been applied in Mali for forty years.
After a very short deliberation, the president announced the sentence: “The Court condemns Fawaz Ould Ahmed and Sadou Chaka to the death penalty and a fine of 10 million francs (approximately 15,000 euros).
The two men remained unresponsive to the verdict, sitting calmly on their bench.
They were then taken out of court, hooded and handcuffed, by soldiers from an elite unit.
Fawaz Ould Ahmed had in the morning claimed responsibility for the two attacks, which killed 25 people in total, saying he was
"proud to have acted out of revenge"
after the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad by the French weekly Charlie Hebdo.