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Failed attack in Paris: two cousins ​​sentenced to 25 and 30 years in prison

2022-06-24T21:24:40.295Z


Two cousins, Sami and Aymen Balbali were sentenced Friday evening June 24 to 25 and 30 years of criminal imprisonment respectively for having...


Two cousins, Sami and Aymen Balbali were sentenced Friday evening June 24 to 25 and 30 years of criminal imprisonment respectively for having organized and perpetrated a failed attack against an apartment building in the 16th arrondissement of Paris in the fall of 2017.

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The specially composed Paris Assize Court matched this sentence with a two-thirds security period for the two men: Aymen, 34, from a suburban district of Brétigny-sur-Orge and on file S for his radicalization , and Sami, 37, manager of a delivery company.

For the latter, of Tunisian nationality, the court pronounced a definitive ban on residence on French territory.

The national terrorist prosecution had requested life imprisonment for these two defendants who appeared in particular for attempted murder.

In the middle of the night on September 30, when several attacks had targeted symbolic places in the capital in the previous months, a homemade incendiary device was placed in one of the halls at 31 rue Chanez, in the west of Paris.

The four gas canisters and liters of gasoline could have blown away the twenty homes and their occupants.

The plan will fail despite nine firing attempts.

The court ruled that this plan of attack had been organized by the two cousins.

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After the attacks, the doubt of the inhabitants of the district

During the trial started on April 7, Aymen Balbali, a corpulent former taxi driver and targeted by wiretapping by the DGSI, asserted a right to silence with variable geometry.

Dodging many questions, including those on the choice of the target, he however assured that he had not adhered to radical terrorist Islam, despite the numerous documents relating to the Islamic State organization found in his belongings.

Regarding Sami Balbali, against whom there were far fewer incriminating documents, the court considered that he had played a

"secondary role"

.

A third man was found guilty like them of criminal terrorist conspiracy: Amine Abbari, 35, from Ullis (Essonne) and approached at the end of 2016 by the intelligence services to infiltrate Islamist networks.

He made videos on Islam with Aymen Balbali.

“I saw the radicalism of Aymen Balbali, but I didn't see that he could be violent.

The DGSI did not see

it either , ”he pleaded.

This beginning of collaboration, finally aborted in May 2017 according to the DGSI (General Directorate of Internal Security,) is not likely to exempt him from criminal prosecution, however concluded the court which sentenced him to eight years in prison. prison, far from the 30 years of imprisonment required by the public prosecutor.

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A fourth man, a distant cousin of the Balbalis, was sentenced to five months' imprisonment for the theft of a car used in the attack.

Source: lefigaro

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