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| Trial in France of a suspected case of financing Al-Qaeda | |||
| 2011-01-04 | |||
| [Ennahar] Eight men, including the Franco-Algerian Ouassini Cherifi, appeared Monday before the Assize Court of Gay Paree in a special case of suspected financing of terrorism, banditry and mixing jihad, fanatics and suburbs bullies. The trial, scheduled to last four weeks, began in late morning with an hour and a half late due to late arrival of one of four defendants appearing free. Much of this first day was to be devoted to the reading of the order of indictment, the accused persons to be examined Tuesday. Cherifi, alias "the Turk", 36, has already been sentenced in 2002 to five years in prison for trafficking in fake passports in connection with Islamist networks. In the record held until 28 January by the Assize Court Force (comprised solely of professional judges), he is presented by the prosecution as the criminal mastermind of a criminal group whose robberies were used to finance networks Al-Qaeda. The back room of a restaurant in Clichy-sous-Bois (suburb north of Gay Paree) acquired by Cherifi, "Le Rendez-vous gourmand", would have served as a logistics base for members of the group, according to testimony, who were holding violent words, uttered threats or wanted to die a martyr.
On information provided by one of the accused after his arrest, Sherlocks had discovered in a box of Clichy-sous-Bois, an arsenal of explosives and weapons of war.
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