Posted on 11/06/2020 5:08:48 AM PST by xomething
A Paris criminal court sentenced a 29-year-old Algerian man Thursday to life in prison for killing a woman and trying to bomb a church near the French capital in a failed 2015 attack that investigators said was plotted by Islamic State group extremists in Syria.
The court imposed the sentence after a jury convicted Sidi Ahmed Ghlam on charges of murder and attempted terrorist murder. The life sentence allows no chance for parole for at least 22 years.
Ghlam testified at his trial that at the time of the alleged crimes he had “embraced” IS ideology. He expressed regret over choosing that path, but denied killing the woman outside the church in the Paris suburb of Villejuif. He was arrested after shooting himself in the leg and calling an ambulance.
Ghlam’s sponsors in Syria were believed to be linked to major deadly attacks in France that year....
Ghlam’s lawyer, Jean-Hubert Portejoie, pledged to appeal the verdict, saying the jury “ruled on a rush of emotion, and under the pressure of public opinion, but not based on law.”
The defendant was on the radar of Algerian and French authorities for his proximity to IS operatives before the failed April 2015 bombing plot at the center of his conviction.
He testified about his interactions with the operatives, but he denied killing fitness instructor Aurélie Chatelain outside the church, blaming a mysterious accomplice who was never found. Ghlam’s DNA was found in Chatelain’s car.
He said he intentionally shot himself in the leg because he had second thoughts about the attack and didn’t want to suffer reprisals from his IS backers. Investigators said Ghlam had to give up attacking the church after accidentally shooting himself while trying to put his weapon back in his belt...
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This animal needs to die. Why should people have to pay for his maintenance while being incarcerated for life?
The muzzies burned down Notre Dame and the Frenchies were so afraid of them that they claimed an "accident".
Change my mind!
The guillotine would be quite ironic.
That headline seems a bit odd. What kind of headline writer qualifies a Church bombing as "failed"? An 'attempt' makes sense, but 'failed'?
It is well past time to bring back ‘The National Razor’ to France.
Algerian man or Algerian-Frenchman?
#CelebrateDiversityAndCaputulation
Supposedly intelligent people allow/invite religious fanatics into their country who believe it is their sacred duty to murder anyone of a different faith. Hilarity ensues.
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