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The trial of the failed attack on gas cylinders near Notre Dame in 2016 entered its final phase on Thursday with requisitions. The two main defendants, 19-year-old Ines Madani and 32-year-old Ornella Gilligmann, who had fallen in love with a false jihadist profile behind Ines Madani, are in perpetuity. The prosecution did not require it but demanded heavy sentences: respectively 30 and 25 years in prison, each with a security period of 2/3.
" If the bottles had exploded, we would not ask the question of punishment, It would be natural to claim life imprisonment " says the advocate general. " If we ask, it's because the action was not completed, not because of the accused, but by chance, " he continues. One way to emphasize that he does not believe that Ornella Gilligmann has tried to scuttle the attack as she claims.
Jean-Michel Boules insists on the many inconsistencies in the versions of the defendants: " What do we really know about the exact role of each of them? Nothing. Who should we believe? None, because their speech is a mixture of truth, errors and lies. But what is certain , he says, is that they bought the bottles together, went to the scene together, fired together ".
As for the amorphous manipulation of which Ornella Gilligmann was the object, " love does not explain everything ", says the Advocate General, who requires 25 years in prison. A sob escapes from the box, but Ornella Gilligmann remains invisible behind the wall. Ines Madani also has a hidden face when the prosecution demands 30 years in prison. Faced with his relentless determination, " the only element that pushed me to not claim life, is its age at the time of the facts. I can not not hope in the human being "explains Jean-Michel Boules. Against Rashid Kassim, a propagandist of the Islamic State group presented as the instigator of the attack but presumed dead in Iraq in 2017, he claims life.