These three men, two of whom are on file for Islamist radicalization, are accused of having taken part in an attempted attack in Paris in September 2017. A resident raised the alert after discovering four carboys on the ground floor gas topped with an electric firing device by telephone.
A trial at the assizes has been ordered against three men, including two on file for Islamist radicalization, accused of having taken part in an attempted attack on gas cylinders in the fall of 2017 in Paris, we learned on Saturday from judicial source, confirming information from the
Parisian
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On the night of September 29 to 30, 2017, a resident of a building in the 16th arrondissement sounded the alert after discovering on the ground floor, between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m., four gas cylinders topped with a device electric firing by telephone, around which had been poured a lot of gasoline.
For some reason, three calls failed to trigger the device.
Two days later, three suspects were arrested before being indicted and imprisoned: Amine A., Sami B. and Aymen B.
Two of the suspects appealed the removal order
In a recent order, the investigating judge in charge of the case decided to send back to the assizes two of the suspects for "attempted murder" and "attempted destruction by means dangerous to persons" in connection with a terrorist enterprise, and a third for "complicity" of these two offenses, according to the judicial source.
The three are also returned to the assizes for "criminal terrorist association".
According to a source close to the case, the first two dismissed in particular for "attempted murder" are Sami B. and Aymen B., the third for "complicity" is Amine A. Two have appealed against the order of reference, according to the judicial source.
A fourth person is also sent to trial, for a theft related to the case.
The national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office (Pnat) had requested in early November that the three main defendants all be tried for "attempted murder".
Sami B.'s lawyer, Me Daphne Pugliese told AFP that she would appeal this order because her client "has always maintained that he is perfectly innocent of the facts with which he is accused".
The motivations remain mysterious
Why was this building on a small street in this affluent district of the capital targeted?
"It is the big question which remains in the file", underlined a source close after three years of investigation.
Me Pascal Garbarini, lawyer of the inhabitant who had given the alert, "an ordinary man who carried out a heroic act", told AFP that his client "(awaited) the trial impatiently! One question to the accused interests him: Why? We will pose it with strength and determination. "