Jean-Baptiste Marty / Photo credit: STEPHANE MOUCHMOUCHE / HANS LUCAS / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP 6:11 a.m., March 11, 2024
On this Monday, March 11, a national day of tribute to the victims of terrorism, a trial for terrorism opens.
That of Youssef Tihlah, an Islamist who tried to kill two police officers on a motorcycle, on April 27, 2020, in Colombes, in Hauts-de-Seine.
It was in the middle of confinement that Youssef Tihlah, 29, known to the police for aggravated violence, but unknown to Intelligence, decided to take action.
This Islamist terrorist, tried from this Monday before the Paris Special Assize Court, had rushed, on April 27, 2020, into two bikers from the national police.
He was arrested in possession of a letter of allegiance to the Islamic State, while the two police officers were seriously injured with multiple fractures.
After more than a year of hospitalization, they still have after-effects today.
Bikers hope for an exemplary sentence
“They are angry because they were doing their job and they were cut down in the middle with dramatic consequences for each of them,” testifies Maître Daniel Bernfeld, lawyer for the two bikers.
The first is now reassigned to a service, while the second has resumed his work as a biker, but partially with limited use of his legs and arms.
They hope for an exemplary sentence during this trial.
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“Obtaining justice in a criminal court by sending this gentleman to prison for many years is compensation for the anger they have within them,” adds Daniel Bernfeld.
Brought to appear for attempted assassinations in connection with a terrorist enterprise, the accused faces life imprisonment.