Frenchwoman appeals jail sentence for foiled attack near Notre-Dame Cathedral

May 25, 2021   

(France 24) A Frenchwoman jailed for her part in a foiled 2016 plot to blow up a car packed with gas canisters near Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris was back in court on Wednesday to appeal her 30-year jail sentence. FRANCE 24’s Yena Lee reports from the courthouse.

Inès Madani, 24, was arrested with four other women after a car packed with gas cylinders was found parked near the bustling esplanade in front of the cathedral in the heart of the capital on November 4, 2016.

The two main defendants, Madani and Ornella Gilligmann, had doused the car with diesel in the middle of the night and tried but failed to set it alight with a cigarette.

They were tried in October 2019 and sentenced to 30 years and 25 years in prison, respectively.

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