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The Franco-Moroccan Bilal Taghi was sentenced this Friday, November 22 to 28 years imprisonment for attempting to assassinate two supervisors of Osny prison, in Val-d'Oise, in 2016. An attack considered as the first jihadist attack in detention.
After the statement of the verdict, Bilal Taghi slumped on his bench in a breath of relief. Denouncing an " irremediable commitment to a radical ideology " of a man who " never ceased to lie ", the Advocate General had requested a life sentence with a 22-year lock-in period. The 27-year-old Franco-Moroccan was finally sentenced to 28 years' imprisonment with a two-thirds security period.
On 4 September 2016, while serving a five-year sentence in a "unit dedicated" to de-radicalization at Osny Prison for attempting to reach Syria, Bilal Taghi leaves his cell for the daily 15h walk . Armed with a knife, he strikes a carotid caretaker and then injures a second. The two victims manage to shelter, while Bilal Taghi prepares his direction.
While waiting for the intervention teams to control him three hours later, the young man smiles at the surveillance camera, makes his prayer and draws a heart on a window after soaking his finger in the blood that stains the ground. The attack traumatizes the penitentiary administration and leads to change the management of radicalized prisoners in France. Bilal Taghi immediately admits he wanted to kill a representative of the French state on behalf of the Islamic State organization and said he will start again if he has " the opportunity ".
Three years later, he claims to have given up the deadly ideology of the jihadist group. This Friday, his last words were for his victims to whom he asked " forgiveness ". His defense did not seek to convince the special Assize Court of its sincerity, but pleaded hope in humanity. The parties now have ten days to appeal.
(With AFP)