It was a very unusual trial which ended on Thursday January 23 before the special assize court of Paris. That of a terrorist attack of a new kind, aimed at avenging the Prophet under the penal code in force in another country, Pakistan. On September 25, 2020, a 23-year-old migrant from the Punjab province, Zaheer Mahmoud, attempted to kill two young people with a chopper who were smoking a cigarette in front of the former premises of Charlie Hebdorue Nicolas-Appert, in Paris, in response to the republication of the caricatures of Mohammed by the satirical newspaper.
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“I thought it was the law of the Koran and of Pakistan”explained the accused at the bar to justify his action, ensuring that he only became aware of the absurdity and horror of his crime in prison. At the end of the debates, this son of peasants, who had come to France in the hope of finding a better life, was sentenced to thirty years of criminal imprisonment for attempted terrorist assassination, accompanied by a definitive ban on territory.
-His five co-defendants, young uneducated migrants, who like him came from Punjabi villages and who shared his indignation and his desire for revenge, were sentenced to sentences of between three and twelve years of criminal imprisonment for terrorist conspiracy. With the exception of two of them, minors at the time of the events, all will be banned from the country following their detention.
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