Samia Maktouf, lawyer for the mother of the 16-year-old boy who went to jihad in Syria, photo taken on arrival at the Paris administrative court on June 9, 2015 -
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A man was sentenced to three years in prison, including an 18-month suspended sentence, after threatening to kill Master Samia Maktouf, one of the lawyers in the Charlie trial.
Samia Maktouf regularly represents civil parties in terrorist attack proceedings.
A 54-year-old man was sentenced Monday to three years in prison including 18 months suspended Monday in Marseille after threatening to death on social networks a lawyer in the Charlie trial.
Me Samia Maktouf, adviser to Lassana Bathily, the former Hyper Cacher storekeeper in eastern Paris, taken hostage on January 9, 2015, lodged a complaint after receiving several public messages on his Facebook profile sent by this man under his name. real name.
This man was tried in immediate appearance before the Criminal Court of Marseille, where he resides, and placed under arrest warrant.
He was accused of making death threats against the lawyer, claiming to defend the Prophet Muhammad, according to screenshots that AFP was able to consult.
"You are scary"
The messages sent between September 20 and October 17 intensified on October 16, when Samuel Paty, a history and geography professor from the Paris region, was beheaded by an 18-year-old refugee of Chechen Russian origin, notes the complainant.
Samia Maktouf, detained at the trial of the attacks which takes place until November 10 before the special assize court of Paris, was not present Monday in Marseille.
"The tribunal is not afraid, but when you see these photos and these comments, you are afraid," said President Patrick Gosselin.
Other videos and photos found on the Marseillais' computer and partly broadcast to the audience show him brandishing a machete.
Last conviction in 2014
At the bar, the fiftieth with graying hair apologized and expressed regret in an almost inaudible voice.
“I'm not like that,” he stammered, arguing that he had taken narcotics when he posted the threats online, after seeing the lawyer on television.
Theft, sale and acquisition of narcotics, carrying a weapon: the president listed the twenty mentions in the record of this former homeless man born in Algeria, the first of which began in the 1980s. But since 2014, when he was released from prison, this "lost sheep" had no longer been convicted and was receiving treatment for addictions to various drugs, insisted his lawyer, Me Nicolas Lemoine.
According to him, there were "no material elements which could demonstrate" that his client, a "marginal" who suffers from a mild cognitive deficit and alcoholism, "could take action".
Samia Maktouf "is used to, she has thick leather (...) but this time, that's enough", added Me Yassine Yakouti, counsel for the Bar of Paris, who has filed a civil action.
The assassination of Samuel Paty was, according to him, “a trigger”.
Highly publicized, Samia Maktouf regularly represents civil parties in terrorist attack proceedings, defending the mother of the soldier assassinated by Mohamed Merah in 2012 and the families of victims of the Nice and November 2015 attacks.
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