Will Arthium Aloyan be tried twice for the same facts?

This is the whole question that arose during his indictment, and which should come up again during his trial for "participation in a terrorist association of criminals with a view to the preparation of one or more crimes of attack on people ".

Indeed, the 33-year-old Frenchman of Armenian origin, who had joined Syria in April 2015 to fight there in the ranks of the al-Nusra Front, has already been sentenced in Turkey for his participation in jihad.

Arrested in the Turkish border town of Hatay in August 2016, he was tried and then sentenced by Turkish justice to four years and two months in prison and then expelled to France in February 2019 before having served his entire sentence.

The principle of "non bis in idem", which prohibits punishing someone twice for the same facts, then hovered around the trial, but the investigating chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal ruled in August 2020 .

A preparation for attacks in France?

“Decisions rendered by foreign jurisdictions only have the authority of res judicata when they concern acts committed outside the territory of the Republic (…) Acts partially committed in France escape” the principle of “non bis in idem”, justified the chamber of the instruction in its judgment. According to her, Arthium Aloyan was indicted in France because he was suspected of wanting to prepare one or more attacks there.

Father of two children born in 2008 and 2010, Arthium Aloyan left his home in Moulins in April 2015, leaving his family three letters, including a will, in which he declared that he wished to die in the land of Islam and bequeath his rare possessions to his wife. family.

In Syria, he joined the al-Nosra Front, learned to handle a Kalashnikov, participated in surveillance missions with his weapon and grenades, the prosecution supports.

During his interrogations, he admitted to having participated in exchanges of fire and to having been wounded in combat.

On his return to France on February 5, 2019, he was found carrying a text written in French advocating armed jihad.

In this text the term “Guraba” appeared twice.

The investigators made the link with the Salafist group "Ghuraba", or "foreigners' brigade", led by the French jihadist Oumar Diaby, alias Omar Omsen, suspected of having convinced many French people to join Syria.

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