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Tunisian accused says cannot remember 2020 France church killings

February 10, 2025 Alain Jean-Robert  

(AFP) A Tunisian man went on trial Monday accused of stabbing to death three people in a church in the southern French city of Nice in 2020, but his insistence that he had no recollection of the events provoked anger among relatives […]

Academics & Education

French court hands down heavy sentences in teacher beheading trial

December 20, 2024 Alain Jean-Robert  

(AFP) A French court on Friday handed heavy sentences to several men convicted of having played a role in the jihadist beheading of schoolteacher Samuel Paty in 2020 — a murder that horrified France. Paty, 47, was murdered in October 2020 by […]

Academics & Education

Teen who lied about beheaded French teacher’s class says ‘sorry’

November 26, 2024 Alain Jean-Robert  

(AFP) A teenager whose lies about her teacher are accused of contributing to the educator’s murder by an Islamist radical apologised to his family in a French court on Tuesday. Eight people have been on trial since early November, charged with contributing […]

Legal

Plan was to hit France with new jihadist attack: defendant

April 6, 2023 Alain Jean-Robert  

(AFP) Jihadists planned a follow-up attack in France during the UEFA Euro 2016 championships, months after killing 130 people in November 2015 attacks in Paris, a defendant in a Brussels trial said Thursday. But that fell apart when a member of the […]

Legal

Brussels 2016 bombing suspect denies knowledge of plot

April 5, 2023 Alain Jean-Robert  

(AFP) The main suspect in the trial of nine alleged jihadists accused of taking part in the March 2016 bombings in Brussels denied on Wednesday having any knowledge of the plot. Salah Abdeslam, a 33-year-old Frenchman already jailed over his role in […]

Legal

Judges retire to consider verdicts in Paris attack trials

June 27, 2022 Alain Jean-Robert, Anne-Sophie Lasserre and Marie Dhumieres  

(AFP) Five judges overseeing the trial into the November 2015 attacks on the Bataclan concert hall and other targets around Paris headed to a secret location Monday to consider their verdicts. The specially built court in central Paris held its final hearings […]

Legal

The difficult search for truth at France’s biggest terror trial

June 27, 2022 Anne-Sophie Lasserre, Alain Jean-Robert, Marie Dhumieres and Adam Plowright  

(AFP) During the nine-month trial stemming from France’s worst ever terror attacks in November 2015, the moment hundreds of victims were hoping for came late in proceedings. “I’m going to explain myself because it’s the last time that I’ll have the opportunity […]

Legal

Prosecutors request life sentence for main Paris attack suspect

June 10, 2022 Alain Jean-Robert and Anne-Sophie Lasserre  

(AFP) Prosecutors in the Paris attacks trial on Friday demanded a life sentence without parole for the main suspect in the November 2015 jihadist strike that killed 130 in France’s worst-ever terror assault. Salah Abdeslam, a 32-year-old Frenchman, is the only surviving […]

Legal

Paris 2015 attacks trial hears closing arguments

June 8, 2022 Marie Dhumieres, Alain Jean-Robert and Anne-Sophie Lasserre  

(AFP) The trial over the November 2015 attacks in Paris, France’s worst-ever terror assault, heard the beginning of closing arguments Wednesday by the three leading prosecutors in the case. For three days, the prosecutors will detail their version of the events on […]

Arts & Entertainment

Eagles of Death Metal testify at Paris attacks trial

May 17, 2022 Alain Jean-Robert  

(AFP) Members of American band Eagles of Death Metal testified Tuesday at the trial for the November 2015 attacks on Paris which saw gunmen attack the Bataclan concert hall while the rockers were playing. Frontman Jesse Hughes and guitarist Eden Galindo arrived […]

Legal

Paris attacks suspect says he changed his mind at last moment

April 13, 2022 Anne-Sophie Lasserre, Alain Jean-Robert and Marie Dhumieres  

(AFP) The last surviving suspected assailant in the deadly 2015 Paris attacks told a court Wednesday that he changed his mind about going through with the killings at the last moment. “The objective I was given was to go to a cafe […]

Legal

Paris attacks suspect claims backed out of suicide bomb plan

February 9, 2022 Marie Dhumieres, Alain Jean-Robert and Anne-Sophie Lasserre  

(AFP) The only suspected assailant still alive after the terror attacks that rocked Paris in November 2015 claimed Wednesday he went back on a plan to blow himself up, as he took the stand for the first time in the trial over […]

Legal

Main Paris attacks accused disrupts trial with new diatribe

September 9, 2021 Alain Jean-Robert and Anne-Sophie Lasserre  

(AFP) The main defendant in the trial over the November 2015 attacks in Paris disrupted proceedings Thursday with a new outburst in court, claiming three of his co-accused knew nothing about the jihadist plot. Salah Abdeslam, the sole survivor of the group […]

Legal

Three jailed between 22-30 years for attack plot in France

February 17, 2021 Alain Jean-Robert  

(AFP) Two French citizens and a Moroccan on Wednesday received heavy prison terms for an attack plot that was foiled after an intelligence agent posing as a jihadist infiltrated their cyber network. The criminal court sentenced Hicham Makran to 22 years in […]

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