Opening of the trial of the Good assault which left 86 useless

The trial of the Good assault, which killed 86 individuals on the Promenade des Anglais on July 14, 2016, the night of the French nationwide vacation, opens Monday in Paris. Six years after this assault claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.

That night, a truck drove into the group who had come to look at the fireworks on the coast of this vacationer city in southeastern France. Greater than 450 individuals have been injured on this assault, the deadliest dedicated within the nation after these of November 13, 2015 towards the Stade de France, the Bataclan and the terraces of Paris.

Within the absence of the assailant on the wheel of the truck, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, killed by the police on the night of the assault, eight individuals of Franco-Tunisian, Tunisian or Albanian nationality, together with a lady, seem earlier than the courtroom of particular assizes of Paris, in a room specifically constructed for the trial of 13-November.

The listening to, which is able to start at 1:30 p.m., is because of stretch till December 16. The primary day might be dedicated to questioning the identification of the accused and updating the civil celebration purposes. They have been already 865 earlier than the trial.

Phrase to the defendants on Tuesday

The primary phrases of the defendants are anticipated on Tuesday. Three of them – Ramzi Kevin Arefa, Chokri Chafroud and Artan Henaj – seem detained, together with one (Artan Henaj) in reference to one other case. 4 others – Maksim Celaj, Endri Elezi, Mohamed Ghraieb and Enkeledja Zace – have been positioned underneath judicial supervision and can seem free earlier than the courtroom.

The eighth, Brahim Tritrou, might be judged in his absence after having damaged his judicial management. In response to his lawyer, he’s at present detained in Tunisia. An arrest warrant has been issued towards him by the French courts.

Solely three defendants (Ramzi Kevin Arefa, Chokri Chafroud and Mohamed Ghraieb) are prosecuted for terrorist affiliation. In a state of authorized recidivism, the primary incurs life imprisonment, the opposite two a sentence of twenty years in jail.

no complicity

For the prosecution, they’d have “contributed to the preparation” of the assault dedicated by Lahouaiej-Bouhlel. This 31-year-old Tunisian, supply driver with an unstable character, was higher recognized earlier than the information for acts of violence, particularly towards his spouse, than for his closeness to the jihadist motion.

Not one of the defendants is being prosecuted for complicity in homicide or tried homicide by an organized gang. The investigation couldn’t decide whether or not they have been conscious of the deliberate assault. The prosecution, nevertheless, underlined their “very shut proximity” with Lahouaiej-Bouhlel and thought of that they have been “totally conscious” of his adherence “to the ideology of armed jihad” and of “his fascination for performing out violent”.

In response to the indictment, it was solely ten days earlier than the assault that the Tunisian confirmed indicators of radicalization, even when he “had been a part of an ideological method of jihadist inspiration for a number of months earlier than”. He was not on file for radicalization by the intelligence companies.

Holland anticipated on the stand

If IS claimed accountability for the assault, the investigation couldn’t set up any direct hyperlink between Lahouaiej-Bouhlel and the jihadist group. This declare “appears to be extra (…) of pure alternative”, she concludes. The 5 different defendants are prosecuted for widespread regulation offenses – prison affiliation and offenses towards the laws on weapons – and incur 5 to 10 years of imprisonment.

The trial might be broadcast concurrently in a corridor of the Acropolis conference heart in Good. The hearings, which is able to happen from Tuesday to Friday, morning and night, can even be accessible by net radio, with a slight delay of thirty minutes, for civil events who so request, together with overseas. A full translation might be offered in English.

Like that of November 13, the trial of the Good assault might be filmed and recorded for the historic archives. Among the many witnesses anticipated on the bar within the coming weeks, the previous President François Hollande or the Minister of the Inside on the time Bernard Cazeneuve.

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