VOICE OF AMERICA: LYON, FRANCE — It wasn’t the deadliest attack in Europe linked to the Islamic State group, but it was among the most disturbing: One evening in 2016, an assailant killed two police officers in their family home, in front of their 3-year-old son.
On Monday, a trial opened in a French counterterrorism court over the attack in the Paris suburb of Magnanville.
The attacker, Larossi Abballa, was shot to death by police. According to court documents, he told police negotiators that he was responding to an IS leader’s call to “kill miscreants at home with their families.”
A childhood friend of Abballa’s, Mohamed Aberouz, is on trial for complicity to terrorism-related murder, complicity to kidnapping and terrorist conspiracy. Aberouz, who says he is innocent, faces up to life in prison if convicted. » | Associated Press | Monday, September 25, 2023>br />
EN FRANÇAIS :
Au procès de l’attentat de Magnanville, la franchise de l’accusé : « L’islam n’est pas compatible avec la démocratie » : Les deux premiers jours du procès étaient consacrés à la personnalité de l’accusé, Mohamed Lamine Aberouz, qui n’a pas fait mystère de sa vision très rigoriste de l’islam. L’occasion d’un rare moment d’audience : sa première rencontre physique avec son épouse religieuse, citée comme témoin. » [€]
