The public prosecutor on Wednesday requested in Paris a sentence of 18 years in prison with a two-thirds security period towards Nourredine Allam, main accused in the trial of the assassination of police officer Xavier Jugelé.
He was shot on the Champs-Elysées on April 20, 2017.
The public prosecutor on Wednesday requested in Paris a sentence of 18 years in prison with a two-thirds security period towards the main accused in the trial of the assassination of police officer Xavier Jugelé, on the Champs-Elysées on April 20 2017. Nourredine Allam, aged 31, allowed the assailant Karim Cheurfi to "make his terrorist project a reality" by selling him "the Kalashnikov loaded with at least 25 bullets" with which he killed Xavier Jugelé and injured three other people, including two police officers.
Karim Cheurfi was killed by retaliatory fire from the police.
Eight years' imprisonment required against two of the other three accused
An eight-year prison sentence was requested against two of the other three defendants, Yanis Aidouni and Mohammed Bouguerra, for selling the Kalashnikov to Nourredine Allam, the only one who was being prosecuted under the terrorist qualification. The public prosecutor finally asked the special assize court to pronounce a sentence of 24 months imprisonment including 12 suspended against the last accused, only prosecuted for the possession of the assault rifle.
According to the prosecution, without Nourredine Allam, Karim Cheurfi "would not have taken such action". He "began to actively search" for an assault rifle to sell him "a weapon of war to carry out a massacre and nothing else," argued the lawyer general. According to her, if Nourredine Allam did not ideologically adhere to Karim Cheurfi's widely "known" project to kill police officers, he should "at least ask himself the question of why Karim Cheurfi was looking for this weapon: to commit an attack."