The former head of the radical Salafist group Forsane Alizza ("The Cavaliers of Pride"), Mohamed Achamlane, is released from prison, reports the newspaper Ouest-France . The man, originally from the Nantes conurbation, was released on January 1 from the Vézin-Le-Coquet (Ille-et-Vilaine) detention center where he was serving a 9-year prison sentence.
He had been convicted in July 2015 for association of criminals in connection with a terrorist enterprise and illegal possession of weapons. Several weapons, including Kalashnikovs, had been seized from his home when he was arrested in 2012, but not all of them were in working order. A list of Jewish store addresses was also discovered.
"Uninhibited Islam" But "Nonviolent"
Forsane Alizza called on the Internet to recruit soldiers and its members had participated in physical training. Claude Guéant, Minister of the Interior at the time, had obtained the dissolution of the group created in 2010 because he suspected him of calling for jihad, which Mohamed Achamlane has always denied. At trial, he assumed to practice and promote "uninhibited Islam" but not violent. Originally, the Franco-Tunisian claimed to have created this group to defend itself against "climbing Islamophobia".
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