After three weeks of audience, only three members of the ultra -right group who fomeded assassination projects for the President of the Republic were sentenced to “criminal association for the preparation of terrorist acts”. Another defendant was sentenced to suspended from weapons.
by Franck Johannès
There is much left of the Barjols file, this ultra-right group which concocted, with a serious blood alcohol, smoky assassination projects of the President of the Republic, aggression of elected officials or attack mosques. Nine of the thirteen defendants were released, Friday, February 17, after three long weeks of audience.
Only three others were sentenced to prison terms for “criminal association for the preparation of terrorist acts”, sentences that they have already served in pre -trial detention. None should go back to detention. A final defendant was finally sentenced to six months suspended for weapons detention.
The national anti -terrorist prosecution was well aware that the file was thin, and the case had not been sent back, as it is the use, before the Assises, but before the 16ᵉ Correctional Chamber, which systematically decided below the sorrows required by the prosecutor-already very moderate sentences, while each defendant risked ten years of detention.
The association of terrorist criminals, born in 1986, is indeed a very elastic offense, which makes it possible to stop and judge the potential terrorists preventively, before of course they take action and, therefore, Before they did much. The limits are necessarily blurred, and the court on Friday retained a strict and very framed definition, even if it means emptying the file of part of its content.
The anti -terrorist prosecutor had recognized, on February 2, that the actions projected by the Barjols were “not very elaborate or very successful”. However, “would we dare to say, if it was an Islamic file, that the elements are not sufficient to characterize terrorism? Should not be questioned?” Did the magistrate asked.
Particular lives
The 16ᵉ Chamber, specialized in terrorism, decided: for nine defendants, the “terrorist” preparatory acts “are proven”, but not the start of an act. They spent years putting together that are not very discreet about Facebook or encrypted messaging projects, devoted a few weekends to military preparations and accumulated weapons, Nazis photos or explosive manuals.
Most deny it, but half of them accuse the other, and the examination of their social networks leaves little room for doubt. Nevertheless, considers the court, “there is no causal link” between these preparatory acts and the projects of violent actions. In summary, the barjols, with particularly highlighted lives, spoke a lot but did nothing, and if there is not far from the lip cup, they were mainly concerned with filling it during endless barbecues.
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