(AFP) Prosecutors demanded a life sentence on Wednesday for a French jihadist on trial charged with holding journalists hostage in Syria for the Islamic State group.
Prosecutor Benjamin Chambre called Mehdi Nemmouche, 39, “one of the most perverse and cruel jihadists of the past 10 years” with a “total absence of empathy and remorse.”
He and the prosecution team demanded a life sentence with a minimum 22 years without parole, during an eight-hour hearing in a Paris court.
Nemmouche has claimed he was merely a “fighter” for IS and not a “jailer.”
