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Four suspects tried in Paris over 2017 jihadist murder of cop
2021-06-08
[IsraelTimes] Four men go on trial in Gay Paree today over the Islamist murder of a police officer on the Champs-Elysees avenue on the eve of La Belle France’s 2017 presidential election.

Xavier Jugele was sitting at the wheel of a parked police bus when Karim Cheurfi
...the oddly reclusive Algerian-Frenchman who'd only been out of prison a year after trying to kill French policemen when he got himself killed committing jihad by killing another policeman in the name of ISIS...
pulled up in a car, got out and shot him dead through the windscreen on April 20, 2017.

Cheurfi, a 39-year-old French jihadist who became radicalized in prison while serving time for robbery and attacks on the police, was himself rubbed out by police minutes later.

The brazen assault, which Cheurfi carried out on behalf of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
terrror group,
...jihad doesn’t require much in the way of brains...
caused outrage in La Belle France, which was already reeling from a wave of attacks by radical Islamists.

Shortly after Jugele’s death it emerged that he had been among the first responders at the Bataclan theatre in Gay Paree on November 13, 2015, where IS button men massacred 90 concertgoers.

One of the four men put on trial today, 31-year-old Nourredine Allam, is accused of taking part in a terrorist conspiracy. He is suspected of having sold Cheurfi the assault rifle that he used in the attack, charges he denies.

The three others are accused of the lesser offenses of illegally owning or selling weapons.
The Guardian (NG) adds:
Cheurfi, a 39-year-old French jihadist who became radicalised in prison while serving time for robbery and attacks on the police, was himself shot dead by police minutes later.
Related:
Karim Cheurfi: 2017-05-21 Man charged over links to Champs-Elysees gunman
Karim Cheurfi: 2017-05-17 Man in Custody over Links to Champs-Elysees Gunman
Karim Cheurfi: 2017-05-06 IS Flag, Pledge Found in Car of French Military Base Suspect
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