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“Ten years in prison for the Algerian Saber Lahmar, accused of having incited the departure to jihad,” translated from “Dix ans de prison pour l’Algérien Saber Lahmar, accusé d’avoir incité au départ au djihad,” Le Parisien, June 17, 2022 (thanks to Medforth):
After a long stay in Guantanamo, “Sheik” Lahmar was cleared and welcomed to France in 2009. He then encouraged several people to leave for jihad, including a man who died in the region at the end of 2015.
The Algerian Saber Lahmar, tried in May in Paris for having incited candidates for jihad to leave for Iraq or Syria, was sentenced this Friday to ten years in prison by the court. The magistrates, who followed the requisitions of the national anti-terrorism prosecution (Pnat), also sentenced him to a two-thirds security period as well as a permanent ban from French territory.
The 16th chamber of the Paris Criminal Court, specializing in terrorism, considered that this man born in 1969 had, through sermons and conversations, “played an active role” in several departures with significant consequences.
Welcomed to France in 2009, Saber Lahmar officiated in a clandestine prayer room in Bordeaux and then regularly for Friday prayers in the mosque of Saint-André-de-Cubzac (Gironde). He was quickly considered a “religious guide” by members of the local Muslim community in New Aquitaine.
The court held against him sermons and remarks “where he justified the departure to Syria and Iraq,” established by recordings or testimonies of relatives, as well as conversations with people who left for the area, after their departure
The 16th chamber justified its decision by the significant “consequences caused” by the facts of “particular gravity” of which it is accused: in particular the departure of Othman Yekhlef, probably dead in the area at the end of 2015, as well as that of a couple and their five children.
