2024-08-07 15:36:39
The perpetrator of France’s first jihadist prison attack, Bilal Taghi, sentenced in 2019 to 28 years in prison for attempting to kill two prison guards in the Paris region, has been stripped of his French citizenship, according to a decree published today in the Official Gazette. reported France Press.
“By decree of August 5, 2024, with the approval of the Council of State (to the Ministry of Justice – note ed.), Bilal Taghi was deprived of French citizenship,” the decree reads.
On September 4, 2016, this 32-year-old man, who also holds Moroccan citizenship, attempted to kill two prison guards in Osny, northwest of Paris, with a homemade melee weapon on behalf of the Islamic State (IS) group. while serving a five-year prison sentence after a thwarted departure for Syria, BTA reported.
The Ardennes-born man, who was 24 at the time of the attack, immediately admitted he wanted to kill a representative of the French state on behalf of IS and said he would do it again if he had the “opportunity” before assured that during the trial he renounced the jihadist ideology of the IS group.
This attack, carried out in the very heart of an “institution dedicated” to deradicalization, has disturbed the prison administration and led to changes in the attitude towards radicalized inmates in the prison, according to AFP.