The verdict fell at 11:00 p.m. French jihadist Tyler Vilus, emir of the Islamic State group, was sentenced on Friday to 30 years' imprisonment, a sentence accompanied by a two-thirds (20 years) security period for crimes committed in Syria from 2013 to 2015. L Advocate General Guillaume Michelin had requested perpetuity in the "exceptional case" of a "full jihadist" who "has not changed an iota".
"All stages of the course of the accused, 30 years, are intertwined with those of the construction of the caliphate," said the Advocate General. Tyler Vilus is one of the first of his generation to reach Syria, at the end of 2012, and one of the rare individuals still alive to have returned. “Opening the Vilus file means opening the directory of French-speaking jihadist personalities. He knows almost all of them, "he adds, before listing the names of Omar Diaby and Mourad Fares, recruiters from a vast sector, from his" brother "Rached Riahi, a member of the so-called Cannes sector. Torcy, of the Belgian Mehdi Nemmouche and especially of the team of the attacks of November 13, 2015.
Next to the executioners on an execution video
Settled in the Aleppo region in March 2013, he announced his promotion in the summer to his mother Christine Rivière - herself sentenced to ten years for three stays in Syria with her son: "In addition to being a cop, I became emir of a group of French ». For the Advocate General, he is "a warlord": posted in Hraytan, on the outskirts of Aleppo, he takes part in the head of a group of French-speaking combatants in "cleaning operations", he is "congratulated for its deadly efficiency. "
From 2014, he established himself as an “Islamic policeman” in Shaddadi (east). It appears in a video released in 2015 by the IS media office: two prisoners are shot in the head. Face uncovered, equipped with a walkie-talkie and an automatic pistol, Tyler Vilus stands upright, two meters from the executioners.
"Not an actor", according to the defense
The accused said that he was there a little by chance "at the exit of the mosque". Tyler Vilus was present "not an actor", reacted his lawyer Me Louis-Romain Riché: he is "not hooded like the executioners", "does not move", "does nothing but attend" the execution, a he said, calling the court to acquit him of the count of "murder in organized gang", which made him incur the perpetuity.
The defense denounced a "relentlessness": "We are trying to make my client, like the fable of La Fontaine, the frog bigger than the beef. He did not lead on November 13. We must remain reasonable on the judicial truth ”. Tyler Vilus has changed, regrets what he has done, assures his lawyer, more assertive than his client was at the hearing. In prison, in terrible isolation for four and a half years, the accused wrote: "In sinking they strive, I kill time, I read Césaire".
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Terrorism: "Warchief", "Full Jihadist" ... Life imprisonment required against Tyler Vilus
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Terrorism: "I became an emir", Tyler Vilus, the first French jihadist tried for murders in Syria
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