2024-04-02 20:19:18
For nearly six hours, the public prosecutor patiently wrapped its indictment around the accused, like a boa tightening its coils around its prey. A slow and suffocating embrace at the end of which he asked the special criminal court of Paris, Tuesday April 2, to sentence Audrey Mondjehi, the main accused of the attack on the Strasbourg Christmas market, to a “heavy sentence” : thirty years in prison for “terrorist criminal association” and “complicity in terrorist assassinations”.
The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT) painted a damning portrait of Audrey Mondjehi to explain her severity: “If we had focused on the seriousness of the facts, we would have stopped at twenty-five years. But the sentence also takes into consideration the personality of the accused…” A 42-year-old defendant with a long criminal record, already convicted twenty-four times in as many years, who “takes comfort in his lies” et “don’t feel an ounce of guilt” whereas it is “the one who provided the weapon to the assailant”.
Amateur rapper and confirmed delinquent, Audrey Mondjehi is on trial for having provided several weapons to a neighborhood friend, the terrorist Chérif Chekatt, including the pistol with which the latter murdered five passers-by, on December 11, 2018. What is at stake in this trial was to know if he was aware of the radicalization of the killer, which would found the “terrorist criminal association”, or even of his planned attack, which would characterize “complicity in terrorist assassinations”. “The distinction lies in the degree of knowledge of the project”summarized the PNAT.
Concentric circles
The prosecution therefore proceeded in concentric circles to try to demonstrate the double guilt of Audrey Mondjehi. For three months, between September 2018 and the day of the attack, the accused served as“zealous intermediary” to provide the killer with different weapons: a defective Kalashnikov, a revolver, a grenade and finally the pistol with which he will carry out the act.
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But did he know that Chérif Chekatt was radicalized? Audrey Mondjehi claims that he spent these three months with the terrorist to kill time, that they did not speak “nothing special” and that he was therefore not aware that he was a jihadist. ” Lies ! »scathes the PNAT, which recalls that Chérif Chekatt did not hide his ideological sympathies from those close to him, to the point that several acquaintances had refused to help him find weapons.
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