Far-Right Leader Sentenced to 9 Years for Plotting Mosque Attacks in France

In addition to Logan Nisin, five other defendants were also convicted. They received sentences ranging from five to eight years in prison. Thomas Annequin, the number 2 of the OAS group, was sentenced to eight years in prison. All the defendants were planning terrorist attack projects targeting mosques and politicians such as Christophe Castaner and Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

All were found guilty of "terrorist criminal association". "The court intends to recall the extreme gravity of the alleged facts. All the elements attest to the imminence of the act. All the defendants have collectively participated and represented the OAS," specified the president.

Logan Nisin had been arrested in June 2017 in Vitrolles, in the Bouches-du-Rhône region, then indicted in July 2017 for criminal association in connection with a terrorist enterprise. On the web, he had expressed his willingness to take action against the "rebeus, blacks, dealers, migrants, scum, jihadists". Members of the network will also be arrested in October of the same year.