The French jihadist Tyler Vilus, arrested in 2015 after several years spent in Syria, was returned to trial by an investigating judge, including for murder, was learned Monday from judicial source, confirming information from France Inter .
He should be tried for "gang-related and terrorist-related killings", "criminal terrorist criminal conspiracy" and "criminal terrorist criminal conspiracy", according to the judicial source.
He appealed this referral
The 29-year-old son of Christine Rivière, nicknamed "Mamie jihad", appealed the dismissal and it is now up to the investigating chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal to rule on the holding of a possible trial, she added. Tyler Vilus presents a rare profile among the ghosts.
Indeed, it is the first to be returned to the assizes for an assassination in Iraq-Syrian zone, appearing in 2015 on the video of a double murder, without being however the executioner, and he is also accused of having directed a group of fighters on the spot.
"Threats" to the Directorate General of Homeland Security
After joining Syria in October 2012, he was arrested in Turkey in July 2015 when he was in possession of a genuine Swedish passport. Described by the investigators as "a very active fighter in the Islamic State organization", he had notably made "threats" to the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI) on social networks, according to documents. They also suspect him of "trying to return to French soil in order to commit an attack".
Questioned in March 2019 by an examining magistrate on the attacks of 13 November, he admitted having been in contact with Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the alleged brain of these attacks, according to Le Parisien. He denied, however, that he had planned to commit an attack in Europe and had not been indicted in this case. His mother was sentenced in July 2018 to ten years in prison by the Paris Court of Appeal, for criminal conspiracy to terrorist but also financing terrorism. Converted by her son, who was almost immediately radicalized, she was arrested in July 2014 as she was preparing to leave for Syria after three previous trips.