“I was not aware that it was going to take such proportions. I do not know French law well. I deserve a good reminder of the law, and reparations. It is almost midnight in court in Nancy when Ahmed Ibrahim, 28, tries to convince that he does not deserve jail.
In his box, the accused does not seem to have taken the measure of the gravity of his acts, despite four hours of an exceptional hearing. The charges are edifying: the young man, in his first year of study to become a school teacher in Metz, has published several announcements to execute his ex and her new boyfriend, on hired killer sites. For this he went to the darknet, an illegal computer network, a black market for organized crime.
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Mexican cartel
The Internet user does not just ask for information on the prices of the various “services” offered. He also delivers photos, addresses in Nancy and workplaces of the victims. His interlocutors are far from being amateurs. We find the Sinaloa cartel, one of the most important Mexican criminal organizations. Fortunately, they will never receive the money. Yet on a discussion board, Ahmed says he was cheated out of $ 3,000 by one of the sites he contacted. And a consumer loan of € 3,400 casts doubt on his real intentions.
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BBC alert
The investigations were made possible thanks to a report on the Pharos platform and an alert from journalists from the British channel BBC, authors of an investigation into digital organized crime platforms. The link with the accused is quickly established. On his computer, the police will find a file entitled “Persons to be eliminated”.
Faced with multiple questions from the court and the civil party, Ahmed Ibrahim holds a strange line of defense, that of curiosity: “I never intended to kill her. I wanted to see how far it would go. I’m curious, I have a nasty flaw. “The young man nevertheless admits having lived his break with” bitterness and anger “. He will not express any regrets or apologies. “There is no awareness, no word for the victims,” M was carried away.e Émilie Fritsch, counsel for the civil parties.
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Collapsed victim
“We are talking about a crime which borders on the Assize Court”, added the deputy prosecutor Nicolas Burckel, who required five years of imprisonment, two of which were suspended. Despite the defense, represented by Me Moudni-Adam, the defendant shot himself in the foot while refuting a psychiatric report indicating an impairment of discernment. He was sentenced to four years in prison, two of which were suspended.
There remains a couple who live in terror. The victim, alerted by English journalists that a contract was hanging over her head, saw a recluse and collapsed during the hearing. She also filed a complaint against her ex-boyfriend for rape. A procedure is in progress.
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