A Frenchman and a Moroccan received heavy prison terms on appeal Friday for an attack plot that was foiled after an intelligence agent posing as a jihadi infiltrated their cyber network. Yassine Bousseria, 42, was sentenced to 24 years in prison for participation in a terrorist conspiracy to prepare terrorist acts, the same term he…
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Three Jihadists Sentenced for Plotting Paris Terrorist Attack
20 Feb 2021
A Paris court handed out jail terms of between 22 and 30 years to three jihadists after they were found guilty of plotting a terror attack in the French capital in December 2016.
The court handed Strasbourg residents Hicham Makran and his friend Yassine Bousseria 22 and 24 years respectively, and a longer sentence to Moroccan national Hicham El-Hanafi.
The court also ruled that El-Hanafi will be permanently banned from French territory upon the completion of his sentence. All three men will be put on the French terrorist offences register, Franceinfo reports.
According to the broadcaster, none of the three men reacted as the verdict was read. The defendants have ten days to launch an appeal.
Paris: Two French citizens and a Moroccan on Wednesday received heavy prison terms for an attack plot that was foiled after an intelligence agent posing as a jihadist infiltrated their cyber network.
The criminal court sentenced Hicham Makran to 22 years in jail, his childhood friend Yassine Bousseria to 24 years and the Moroccan Hicham El-Hanafi to the maximum 30 years in prison.
It said what Hicham El-Hanafi, 41, had done was “of extreme seriousness, concerning in particular preparations for a mass terror attack”.
In justifying the tough sentences, it also described as “very serious” the involvement of Bousseria, 41, and Hanafi, 30.
The three were tried on charges of joining a terror group with a view to carrying out attacks.