France. Brahim aouissaoui, perpetrator of the assassination in the Basilica in Nice, sentenced to life imprisonment

Citizen Tunisia Brahim Aouissaoui was sentenced on Wednesday by a court in Paris to lifetime deprivation of liberty for killing three people during a terrorist attack in the Basilica in Nice in October 2020. This is the highest possible judgment in the French justice dimension. The prosecutor's office requested such a sentence.

25-year-old Aouissaoui confessed to the attack, although during the trial he maintained that he did not remember what happened. On October 29, 2020, in the Basilica in Nice, he attacked with a knife and killed three people: two women and a church temple, shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is great).

Only two days earlier he got to France From the Italian island of Lampedus and, according to the prosecutor's office, he came with the intention of taking the act of terror in France. Investigators estimated that he had undergone radicalization in Tunisia since around 2018. Earlier he did not follow the religious rules, including He drank alcohol and smoked marijuana.

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Aoussaoui announced in court that his act was “authorized” revenge for the murder of Muslims in the world, made by “West”. He did not react to the sentence, and during the whole trial he often seemed little interested in what was happening in the courtroom.

The act he committed was one of three attacks in France made by radicalized Islamists in the autumn of 2020, after re -published the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad by the satirical weekly “Charlie Hebdo” (they were published on the day the process of the perpetrators of the perpetrators of the attack on the editors of the magazine in 2015).

Just two weeks earlier, on October 16, 2020, a history teacher died at the hands of a young radicalized refugee from Chechnya Samuel Paty. On September 25, the Pakistani Zheer Mahmud tried to kill two people in front of the former headquarters of the editorial office of “Charlie Hebdo”, thinking that he was attacking employees of this newspaper. In January 2015, Mamud was sentenced to 30 years in prison.