The trial of the "Nice attack" ends... and the verdict is issued today
French policemen in front of the truck that drove into the crowd.
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The trial of the defendants in the Nice attack ended yesterday morning, with the hearing of their latest statements before the judges of the Special Criminal Court in Paris, and the verdict is scheduled for today.
After the defendants spoke for the last time, the judges of the Special Criminal Court went to a secret place for deliberation, provided that they return today to the Great Hall of the Palace of Justice in Paris to pronounce the verdict.
The trial is taking place in the absence of the perpetrator of the attack, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who stormed the crowd truck at the famous “La Promenade des Anglais” avenue on the Mediterranean coast on the night of the French National Day, which resulted in 86 dead, including 15 children, and more than 450 injured, as the police killed him. On site.
The French Anti-Terrorism Public Prosecution requested the imposition of a 15-year prison sentence against the three main defendants, without convicting one of them, Ramzi Arafa (27 years), who admitted that he provided a weapon to a criminal gang.
Arafa said, “I am guilty because I sold a weapon without thinking.
And since then six years ago I haven't stopped to think about it.
I hope you have listened to that.”
The Public Prosecution Office for Combating Terrorism explained that Arafa, a drug dealer lured by easy money, was unaware of the extremism of the attacker.
She added that the other defendants on trial for forming a criminal gang, Mohamed Gharib (47 years old) and Shukri Shafroud (43 years old), certainly committed less criminal acts, but “they knew, unlike Ramzy Arafa, that Lahoueij Bouhlel was qualified to carry out an attack.”
Muhammad Gharib told the court yesterday: "I am not a terrorist and I have nothing to do with what happened."
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