Mohammed Réda Ouharani appeared for criminal conspiracy to prepare acts of terrorism.
A 27-year-old French man was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment by the Assize Court in Paris for planning a suicide bombing attack on the Shia community in Lebanon on behalf of the Islamic State organization.
Mohammed Réda Ouharani, who was arrested in 2014 in the suburbs of Paris, appeared for criminal conspiracy to prepare acts of terrorism, said the prosecutor general in a statement. The court delivered its verdict Thursday, November 22.
In Syria with Daesh
He was found guilty in 2014 of going to Syria to join the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, ancestor of IS), to have received military and religious training and to have "Participated in the actions of this group" .
He then went to Lebanon "on behalf of ISIL" to commit a suicide bombing of the Shia community. He would, however, have given up on this project before returning to France.
Ready to take action in France
He was also found guilty of having, on his return to France, "maintained his contacts with the ISIL sponsors and proposed to act" in France.
The Advocate General had requested 15 years' imprisonment for this man, who was tried by a special Assize Court, competent for terrorist crimes and composed only of professional magistrates and not of popular jurors.