Two first prison sentences were required this Friday, April 29 before a Belgian court against two defendants presumed dead in Syria, at the trial of fourteen people accused of having helped the perpetrators of the jihadist attacks of November 13, 2015 in Paris.
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These two men tried by default are Sammy Djedou, whose death was announced by the Pentagon in December 2016, and Youssef Bazarouj, another Belgian suspected of having been associated in Syria with the external operations cell of the Islamic State group (IS). ).
He was also reportedly killed in a war zone in 2017. The representative of the public prosecutor's office, Véronique Melot, requested against Sammy Djedou, prosecuted as "
person leading a terrorist group
", two years in prison, in addition of a 13-year prison sentence already pronounced against him by the Brussels Criminal Court in June 2021.
The federal magistrate also requested a five-year prison sentence against Youssef Bazarouj, prosecuted for "
participation in the activity of a terrorist group
", as an additional sentence to the five-year sentence decided by the court in February 2021. This man from de Molenbeek joined Syria and IS in 2014, and "
belongs to the cell led by (Abdelhamid) Abaaoud (the operational chief of the commandos of the attacks, editor's note) and (Osama) Atar (presumed sponsor of the attacks, piloted by the 'ISIS from Syria)
,' said the representative of the public prosecutor's office, stressing that he had had regular contact, in particular with the two brothers Salah and Brahim Abdeslam, as well as with Mohamed Abrini, another defendant in the November 13 trial. .
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In total, 14 alleged accomplices of the jihadist commandos behind the attacks of November 13, 2015 which left 130 dead in Paris and Saint-Denis have been tried since April 19 before the Brussels court.
The requisitions must continue until Monday.
This trial takes place parallel to that which takes place before the Special Assize Court of Paris, for twenty defendants, fourteen of whom are present.
It is a question of judging suspects excluded from the French judicial procedure but suspected by Belgium of having transported, hosted or financially assisted certain perpetrators of the attacks in Paris and Saint-Denis.
The Brussels trial, known as “
Paris bis
”, is scheduled until May 20.
The judgment, put under advisement, should be rendered on June 30 at the latest.
