Jihadist Farid Ikken was sentenced Friday, November 19 on appeal to thirty years of criminal imprisonment for attacking police officers with a hammer and wounding one of them in front of Notre-Dame cathedral in June 2017 in Paris, AFP has learned judicial source.
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The Paris Special Assize Court has increased the sentence handed down at first instance to this 44-year-old former Algerian student, who in October 2020 was sentenced to 28 years in prison. The professional magistrates matched this sentence with a two-thirds security sentence, as well as a definitive ban from French territory and the ban on carrying a weapon subject to authorization for a period of 15 years, said this source. .
Farid Ikken was convicted of criminal conspiracy and attempted assassination of public officials in connection with a terrorist enterprise. On June 6, 2017, on the forecourt of Notre-Dame, the assailant jumped on three policemen, hitting one of them with a hammer, shouting "
It's for Syria!"
The policeman, slightly injured in the head, and one of his colleagues opened fire and wounded Farid Ikken in the chest, before arresting him.
In his bag and at his home, the police had found jihadist propaganda material and a video in which he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) group and announced: "It
is time for revenge, it is time for revenge. 'time of jihad
'.
If Farid Ikken had quickly recognized the facts, he denied on the other hand having wanted to kill the police officers.
During his first trial, he claimed to have wanted to hurt them in an “
act of political resistance
” intended to “
draw the attention of French public opinion to the massacre of (his) little brothers and sisters in Mosul (Iraq) and in Syria by the French army
”, which bombed ISIS within the Western coalition.