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The Paris Special Criminal Court handed down sentences of between four years and life imprisonment for those convicted of the attacks on the Paris region in January 2015.
The most severe penalty, life imprisonment, was handed down against Muhammad Belhussain, who was tried in absentia and is believed to have died in Syria. The court charged the perpetrator of the attack on the Jewish store, “Amedi Coulibaly”, on charges of complicity in terrorist crimes. The life of Boumediene, Coulibaly’s partner, who has been in hiding since her escape to Syria a few days after the two attacks, was sentenced to 30 years in prison without the possibility of release before serving two-thirds of the sentence.
A similar sentence was passed against Ali Reza Polat, who was described as the “right hand man” of the perpetrator of the attack on the Jewish store. This 35-year-old Frenchman of Turkish origin was convicted of “complicity” and “playing a key role” in the preparation of the attacks, according to the court.
The court has prosecuted three other defendants, all of whom are close to Amedi Coulibaly, on charges of association with criminal terrorists, after they found it impossible to ignore the nature of the Jewish shop attack plot. Ammar Ramdani was also sentenced to the harshest penalty of all, 20 years in prison, without having been released before having served two-thirds of the sentence.
The sentences are generally lower than those requested by the prosecution, which is life imprisonment for two of the defendants and five to 30 years for 12 other defendants, noting that they “played a fundamental role in carrying out the two jihadist attacks.” .
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