(Radio France) Prosecutors on Friday called for the maximum life sentence for French jihadist Tyler Vilus, who is on trial for crimes that were allegedly committed in Syria. The son of a radicalised woman known as “Jihadi Gran,” he is believed to have climbed the Islamic State hierarchy to become an “emir.”
Prosecutors depicted Tyler Vilus as a “jihadist through and through,” and argued that an “exceptional case” required punitive measures.
Thirty-year-old Vilus went on trial last Thursday on charges of belonging to a terrorist group, heading a unit of Islamic State group fighters and “aggravated murder” in Syria between 2013 and 2015.
He is accused of supervising numerous executions as a senior figure in the extremist group.
