life sentence required against Reda Kriket

Life imprisonment. This is what the national anti-terrorism prosecutor (Pnat) required on Tuesday against Reda Kriket, tried in Paris since March 8 for a jihadist attack project foiled in March 2016, a few weeks before the Euro football in France.

The same maximum sentence, accompanied by a safety period of 22 years, was requested against two of his co-defendants, Anis Bahri and Abderrahmane Ameuroud, “driving forces in the preparations” for this terrorist attack.

For the Pnat, “the framework of this attack project began in January 2015”, with the stay in Syria “highly probable” of Reda Kriket and Anis Bahri.

From four to thirteen years in prison for the rest of the accused

For four other defendants, involved but to lesser degrees, the Pnat requested sentences ranging from four years imprisonment to thirteen years imprisonment.

The verdict is expected Thursday or Friday.

Reda Kriket, a 39-year-old ex-offender, was arrested on March 24, 2016 in the Paris region, two days after the attacks in Brussels.

In an apartment he had been renting under a false name since the summer of 2015 in Argenteuil (Val-d’Oise), investigators discovered “much more than an arsenal”, noted one of the general counsel: thirteen weapons , including five assault rifles, a “multitude of ammunition” and “explosives already formed”.

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