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An Algerian court on Thursday sentenced to death a jihadist for the kidnapping and beheading of French mountaineer Herve Gourdel six years ago after a high profile one-day trial.
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Algeria hands death penalty to jihadist in French beheading trial
By Abdelhafid Daamache
FEB 18, 2021
A memorial photograph of murdered mountaineer Herve Gourdel in his hometown in France, in this September 2014 picture. ‘Herve Gourdel, come back’, it reads in French. By Jean-Christophe MAGNENET (AFP/File)
An Algerian court on Thursday sentenced to death a jihadist for the kidnapping and beheading of French mountaineer Herve Gourdel six years ago after a high profile one-day trial.
The 2014 killing in Algeria of Gourdel was claimed by a jihadist faction affiliated to the Islamic State group.
Gourdel, 55, was abducted while exploring the rugged massif in the North African nation s Djurdjura National Park, a draw for hikers, but also long a sanctuary for jihadists.
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