According to the judicial source, the investigating chamber, in accordance with the requisitions of the attorney general, confirmed on Wednesday the indictment of Othman Garrido, already ordered in mid-July by anti-terrorism investigating judges and that the person concerned contested. According to the judicial source, he was also kept in pre-trial detention.
Who is he?
Born in January 1994, he must be tried for the assassination of one person and the murder of two people by an organized gang, all in connection with a terrorist enterprise. He is also dismissed for criminal terrorist association. The facts for which he must appear extend from January 2013 to July 2020.
Othman Garrido grew up in the popular La Paillade neighborhood in Montpellier. In 2012 he left to wage jihad in Syria, where he called himself “Abu Salman al Faransi”. Targeted by an arrest warrant since 2016, he was expelled from Turkey in October 2020 and indicted then placed in pre-trial detention upon his arrival in France.
Accusations
The investigation is based in particular on a telephone considered to be that of his wife on site. Recovered in Baghouz, Syria, and handed over by the Americans, it revealed 78 photos of Othman Garrido.
Among the photos, a photograph where a man holds a decapitated head. For the prosecution, it is Othman Garrido. He contests. The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (Pnat) and the investigating magistrates considered that the jihadist would also appear at the front of a crowd during a scene of double beheading: he is therefore accused of having participated in a joint action leading to the double murder .
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