Twenty years of imprisonment for detainee who had attacked two guards in Borgo prison

Morad Akouch was sentenced for “assassination attempts” by the Assize Court of Haute-Corse after stabbing two pentear supervisors in Corsica in 2018. Although having shouted “Allahou Akbar” during the facts, he has not been considered as a terrorist, but as an opportunistic ultraviolete personality.

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The Court of Assizes of Haute-Corse has condemned, on the night of Friday to Saturday, November 20, Morad Akaouch, 32 years old, to twenty years of criminal imprisonment for “attempts at murderers on persons depositories of the authority “. The jury felt that he had deployed a “homicide intent” towards two supervisors from Borgo Prison he had stabbed in total when he was incarcerated. This sentence has been accompanied by a five-year socio-judicial follow-up against this man whose violence has transpired debate, through his glass box.

The intimate conviction of the jury has forged in the wake of the requisitions of the general counsel, which has shown that the facts were part of a “revenge tunnel” which has sucked a “cold anger”. The decision was greeted in the night as a “relief” by 70 agents and nearby, who sold their colleagues silently for five days. The accusation centerpiece rested for one minute and thirteen seconds. This is the duration of the video surveillance that has captured the morning aggression of January 19, 2018 in the closed carceral in camera. These images were broadcast the second day.

9:26. We discover Morad Akaouch, 1.90 m, long beard, thick jacket and shaved skull routing on the “kiosk”, the post of the supervisors. There he stabs eleven times the guard Gino Orsatti, who is saved by two detainees. A second supervisor, Antoine Orsini, rushing to help him, gets stabbed thirteen times. On the prisoner, other prisoners assist, forbidden, on the scene. Some descend in the prison arena to allow the second guardian to extricate the watchtower.

All have heard Morad Akaouch scream several times “Allahou Akbar”, but the short film sees the Assize Court is a story without words. Covered with a Palestinian flag, Mr. Akaouch Pavane this time and harangue the other prisoners, arms raised.

The unit remains for more than one hour in the hands of the detainees, the time that mobile gendarmes invest it by two successive waves. “I could not control my anger, I did not intend to kill them,” defended Morad Akaouch. “When I look, I feel like it’s a ghost, I shock myself,” he continued, lowering his head before the film that President Véronique Maugendre asked him to look at.

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19 January 2018, outside the center of Borgo, guardians demonstrated since the morning in support of their colleagues stabbed eight days earlier at the Prison of Vendin-le-Veil (Pas-de-Calais) by A jihadist. This spectrum of terrorism has hovered on the trial. At the helm, the experts do not even lead to the accused of jihadist signs or allegiance’s link to this ideology. Alain Penin, the experienced psychologist who had detected in his time the radicalization of Mohammed Merah, believes that his passage to the act is due to a “paranoid overinterpretation”. Has a “narcissistic fragility”.

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