After receiving death threats, Ahmed Hilali, the former imam of the Gonesse mosque in Val d’Oise, which was attended by Mickaël Harpon, the assailant of the Paris Police Headquarters, filed a complaint on Monday, October 21, his lawyer announced.
The French State has decided to file a complaint against a man from Drôme who declared that France "is heading straight for the abyss, towards the unspeakable, towards apartheid". In this regard, the Drôme Prefecture has seized the Public Prosecutor.
A Moroccan national from the city of Tangier has been expelled from Spain for terrorism apology. He will no longer be able to set foot on Iberian soil for a period of 10 years.
In a plea, investigating judge David De Pas, Coordinator of the Anti-Terrorism Unit of the Paris Court, calls for the repatriation of French jihadists.
Koen Geens, Belgian Minister of Justice, faced the deputies on Thursday, October 17. He made it clear to them that it is impossible for the Government to separate the children of jihadists from their mothers, during their repatriation.
We know a little more about the identity of these two jihadists : Yassine Cheikhi and Mohamed Botachbaqut. Imprisoned in northeastern Syria, they were able to escape, as confirmed by Paul Van Tigchelt, Director of the Coordination and Analysis Body for the Threat (OCAM), before the Foreign Relations Committee of the Chamber.
The situation of French police officers of the Muslim faith is worrying since the attack on the Paris Police Headquarters. A kind of paranoia has set in and, against the young recruits in particular, the risk of a "witch hunt" weighs.
While he had been sentenced last April to ten years in prison for his involvement in the terrorist act of Imlil, a Swiss citizen, to the general surprise, has benefited from a reduced sentence. Now, he will only serve five years behind bars for "forming a terrorist group".
Three French nationals were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 1 to 5 years in cases related to terrorism. The sentence was handed down by the Criminal Chamber in charge of terrorism cases at the Court of Appeal of Salé.
More than 3,000 people are on the Belgian police’s blacklist for their links to far-right factions, considered "small groups or phenomena to be monitored," according to data from the Ministry of the Interior, Pieter De Crem.
The trial of European jihadist nationals in Iraq is the subject of discussions between a small group of European countries and the Iraqi authorities. Iraq would have demanded an astronomical sum to carry out the work.
The hearing of the main accused in the terrorist act of Imlil is reaching its fifth session. The Anti-Terrorism Chamber at the Court of Appeal of Salé decided to increase the sentence of the Swiss national, Nicolas Phenninger, to 5 years in prison instead of 10 years.