The Monde.fr with AFP •
The French Gilles Le Guen, who had joined the ranks of ‘al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Mali, was sentenced Friday, May 15, to eight years in prison by the Paris Criminal Court.
Aged 60, he was declared guilty 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 being parties to train there .
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This sentence is in line with the requirements of the prosecutor against Gilles Le Guen which was pursued in particular for taking part in the offensive on the Islamist Diabali City in January 2013. He was in a pickup truck loaded with explosives, away, but was forbidden to have directly involved in the attack.
This former captain in the merchant marine was arrested on the night of April 28 to 29, 2013 by French special forces in Mali. At the time, the defense minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, described him as “a clueless that becomes terrorist” .
He was spotted in September 2012 AQIM ranks on a cliché recovered by the French secret service. In a video posted in early October 2012 on the Mauritanian news website Sahara Medias, he warned “French presidents, American” and the UN against military intervention in Mali in preparation against armed Islamist groups who controlled the north of the country.
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