The jihadist detainee Bilal Taghi was sentenced this Friday, November 22 to 28 years of criminal imprisonment, with a two-thirds security period, for assaulting and attempting to murder two prison guards in Osny prison (Val-d 'Oise) in September 2016. An attack considered as the first jihadist attack in detention.
The Advocate General had requested a life sentence with a 22-year lock-in period, calling for sanctioning the "irreversible commitment to a radical ideology" of a man who "ceased to lie". The Franco-Moroccan, 27, already sentenced to five years in prison for an aborted departure in Syria, had acknowledged wanting to kill a representative of the French state in the name of Daesh and said his intention to start again if he had " the opportunity. "