Following a swift deliberation, Bamako’s court against terrorism on Wednesday, October 28, recognized Mauritanian Fawaz Ould Ahmed, alias “Ibrahim 10”, guilty of belonging to a jihadist group, for murder in connection with a terrorist activity and financing of terrorism. He and his co-defendant, Sadou Chaka, were sentenced to death as well as a fine of 10 million CFA francs for the attacks on the Terrace restaurant and Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako. These two attacks claimed the lives of 25 people as well as two attackers.
With our special envoy to Bamako Assize Court, Kaourou Magassa
During the nine-hour hearing of this other lawsuit, Fawaz Ould Ahmed alias “Ibrahim 10”, showed no remorse. At the helm, he detailed the planning of the Radisson Blu attack. Because of the restaurant la Terrasse, where he killed five people, Fawaz Ould Ahmed declared that he had committed himself to avenge the Prophet after the publication of comics by Charlie Hebdo.
“Who are we to believe that we are invested in the defense of God and the Prophet?” A bourgeois party tourist asked him in his plea.
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The lawyer from “Ibrahim 10” announces a cassation appeal and asks for more relief
The court decided the issue by sentencing Fawaz Ould Ahmed and his co-accused Sadou Chaka to death. This fully satisfies me Mamari Diarra, another lawyer for civil parties: “It already allows victims to know that there is a state behind, and which is ready to strike when the criminal law is violated, and every time their rights , human rights, are really violated. ”
During his last speech, Fawaz Ould Ahmed asked for forgiveness from the Malian and Muslim victims. To this, Amadou Dioroba Diallo, defense lawyer, asked me for more relief: “Our appeal in cassation, it will just be to ask for the application of the uniform law. This law contains life imprisonment, not the death penalty. ”
Since 1980, there has been a moratorium on the issue of the death penalty. This is no longer used in Mali.
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