Adlene Hicheur, a 35-year old Algerian-born former nuclear physicist with Switzerland's CERN laboratory, was sentenced to 5 years in prison on charges of plotting terrorist attacks in France.
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Adlene Hicheur was arrested in October 2009 after the police found a series of emails he exchanged with Mustapha Debchi, an alleged contact with Al-Qaida who was operating out of Algeria. "I will target highly sensitive spots in Europe and in France," the scientist wrote.
While on trial, Mr. Hicheur confessed he wrote those email but denied he would have ever carried out any of those attacks.
At the time, he remarked, he was experiencing a personal "zone of turbulence" . Al-Qaeda material was found in his parents' apartment after he was taken into custody.
Mr.Hicheur has been behind bars since 2009. |