French Gilles Le Guen, who had joined the ranks of Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Mali, was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison by the Paris Criminal Court. Aged 60, he was convicted of criminal association in relation with a terrorist enterprise. This is the first conviction on the basis of a law passed in late 2012, which allows for the prosecution of French suspected of involvement in terrorist acts abroad or cause to be parties to it.
This sentence is in line with the requirements of the prosecutor against Gilles Le Guen, who was prosecuted in particular for having taken part in the offensive on Islamist City Diabali in January 2013. It was in a pick- up with explosives, away, but was forbidden to have directly participated in the attack.
A “clueless that becomes terrorist”
This former captain in the merchant marine was arrested on the night of April 28 to 29, 2013 by special forces French Mali. At the time, the Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian describes as “a terrorist who becomes lost.” Patentee of Shipping obtained at the end of the 80s, this Breton, converted to Islam long, has traveled extensively before settling in Morocco, Mauritania and Mali in the past five years with his second wife, a Moroccan. He was spotted in September 2012, in the ranks of AQIM on a cliché recovered by the French secret service.
In a video posted early October 2012 on the Mauritanian news site Sahara Media, he warned “French presidents, American” and the United Nations against military intervention in Mali in preparation against armed Islamist groups who controlled the north of the country.
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