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French court upholds life sentence for man linked to jihadist murder of police couple The Paris Special Criminal Court on Saturday upheld a life sentence for a man found guilty of being complicit in the 2016 murder of two police officers in front of their three-year-old child.

June 21, 2025 Unlisted Author

(France 24) A French court on Saturday upheld a life sentence for a man convicted for his part in the 2016 killing of a police couple at their home in front of their young child. In 2023, Mohamed Lamine Aberouz, a Franco-Moroccan, […]

‘His life is in danger’: ISIS leader asking for repatriation in France 'He is undoubtedly one of the highest-ranking living dignitaries of the Islamic State,' his lawyer says.

February 14, 2025 Hélène de Lauzun

(European Conservative) One of the high dignitaries of the Islamic State, a French national, has been held prisoner by the Kurds in northern Syria since 2018. Believing his life to be in danger, he has asked to be repatriated to France, which […]

France deports Moroccan-French convicted of terrorism charges to Morocco France also stripped the individual of his French nationality.

March 31, 2024 Safaa Kasraoui

(Morocco World News) France has expelled Rachid Ait El Hadj, an individual convicted of terrorism in 2007 and stripped of French nationality. El Hadj, who was under surveillance for his alleged persistent links with terrorist groups, was expelled on Saturday morning, French […]

Paris knife attacker ‘swore allegiance to Islamic State’

December 3, 2023 Stuart Williams

(AFP) The man who stabbed a tourist to death near the Eiffel Tower in Paris swore allegiance to the Islamic State group in a video posted to social media, French anti-terrorist prosecutors said Sunday. Known to the authorities as a radicalised Islamist […]

Man found guilty of complicity in 2016 terrorist murder of French couple The killing of a police captain and his partner was part of a string of deadly Islamist terrorist attacks in 2015 and 2016 that scarred France.

October 11, 2023 Aurelien Breeden

(NY Times) A French-Moroccan man was convicted on Wednesday on charges of complicity in the 2016 murders of an off-duty police officer and his partner at their home near Paris, part of a wave of deadly Islamist terrorist attacks that deeply shocked […]

A trial opens in France over the killing of a police couple in the name of the Islamic State group

September 25, 2023 Nicolas Vaux-Montagny

(AP) It wasn’t the deadliest attack in Europe linked to the Islamic State group, but it was among the most disturbing: One evening in 2016, an assailant killed two police officers in their family home, in front of their 3-year-old son. On […]

Trial opens over jihadist murder of French priest

February 14, 2022 Amélie Baubeau

(AFP) The alleged accomplices in the 2016 murder of an 85-year-old French priest appeared in the dock in Paris on Monday after years of investigation into an attack that shocked a country already reeling from a spate of jihadist assaults. Father Jacques […]

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

May 25, 2021 Unlisted Author

(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 […]

French citizens, imams and police pay tribute to slain police worker

April 26, 2021 Manuel Ausloos

(Reuters) Hundreds of people including Muslim imams paid tribute on Monday to a female French police official stabbed to death last week by a French resident of Tunisian origin who shouted “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is greatest.” The police administrative worker, a […]

Three detained after police worker stabbed to death near Paris

April 23, 2021 Alice Lefebvre and Tiphaine Le Liboux

(AFP) French police arrested three people linked to a 36-year-old Tunisian man who stabbed to death a police employee at her workplace southwest of Paris on Friday in a suspected Islamist attack. The murder at a police station in Rambouillet, a commuter […]

Notre-Dame bomb plot: Sentencing of female terror cell expected this week French trial reveals how four women were convinced to inflict more carnage on Paris

October 12, 2019 Colin Randall

(National-UAE) An unprecedented trial of six women accused after a failed car bombing close to Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris sheds new light on the recruitment, manipulation and deployment of females by terrorists. The Paris court is also judging a major ISIS figure […]