The prosecution demanded on Friday June 4 thirty years of criminal imprisonment against Inès Madani, tried on appeal before the special assize court of Paris nearly five years after a failed attack on the gas cylinders near Notre-Dame. Lady.
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The Advocate General requested confirmation of the sentence imposed at first instance for this attempted “
mass attack
”, but requested that it be accompanied by a two-thirds safety period. Inès Madani was sentenced in October 2019 to thirty years imprisonment, but the Assize Court had not pronounced a safety period, in particular because of her young age, 19, at the time of the facts.
The young jihadist, now aged 24, appealed, considering the penalty excessive. "
It seems to me totally inconceivable that she could be sentenced to less than thirty years of criminal imprisonment
", launched the representative of the prosecution, estimating that more than a year and a half after her first trial, she remained "
far from 'de-radicalization
'.
On the night of September 3 to 4, 2016, Inès Madani and another jihadist, Ornella Gilligmann - sentenced definitively to 25 years in prison - parked a car containing six gas cylinders in front of the crowded terrace of a restaurant near Notre-Dame of Paris, and had tried to set it on fire with diesel. Only this poor choice of this fuel, hardly flammable, made it possible to avoid a deadly explosion. "
The objective was obviously to mow as many lives as possible, to cause carnage
", as recognized Inès Madani during the debates, underlined the Advocate General.
After the failure of this attack, the "
determination
" of Inès Madani, who adhered "
completely
" and "
for more than two years
" to the ideology of the Islamic State group, remained "
flawless
" until her arrest. on September 8, 2016 in Boussy-Saint-Antoine (Essonne), a knife in his hand, he continued. The prosecution also requested that she be sentenced for the attempted assassination of a police officer and for criminal terrorist conspiracy. The defense will plead in the afternoon. Verdict expected Monday.
