“It’s going bled on the 17th”: on November 8, 2018, Rémi M., sends this SMS to a correspondent. Five days later, five people, including the four for whom the Pnat is asking for a trial, are arrested. Open at the end of August, the anti-terrorism investigation has just changed.
On France 2, the following March, Christophe Castaner, then Minister of the Interior, explains: “ A few days before the start of the yellow vests movement, a group was formed and titled Ca va bleigne le 17, it was a terrorist attack and we neutralized it. »
« Its gonna bled on the 17th “? Of the'” humour », Will assure in front of the investigators, Remi M., unemployed, and who quickly erased the messages, according to the final indictment of the Pnat of October 26th.
A heist project
The reconstruction of the exchange suggests that it is part of a discussion where Rémi M. was annoyed with spare part prices for his car. It prevents. For the Pnat, Rémi M., Kevin B., and two brothers, Kamel and Hillal A., have “ prepared a draft violent act on the national territory ».
He therefore asks for their referral to the criminal court for “criminal association with a view to preparing an act of terrorism”, an offense punishable by ten years in prison. The decision is now up to the investigating judge in charge of the case.
Despite planning ” not very successful “And” blurred outlines “, The national anti-terrorism prosecution (Pnat) believes that the four men had well prepared a robbery project,” had already considered a place “, A bank in Saint-Etienne subject to tracking, and a” modality of action “, to know ” attack on a distributor or a van ».
In front of the investigators, the four implicated all deny the existence of a planned attack, more ” all eventually recognize the existence of the heist project », Specifies the prosecution.
But for the Pnat, these four men were evolving ” in a context of advanced radicalization ” and of ” fascination with jihad “. If the money was good ” project engine “, The Pnat estimates, on the basis of their declarations, that this project was intended to take this money” to dogs in a violent way in order to punish them and to bend (society) from A to Z », Hence the terrorist nature retained for this project.
“No terrorist aim”
At the material time, Kevin B., 27, was in prison for “terrorist association” and was considered “radicalized”. The Pnat thus underlines that on September 12, 2018, it “ tried to make his son recite the Koran who, in view of his very young age “, two years old at the time,” was only capable of uttering borborygmes ».
The two brothers, Hillal and Kamel A., aged 25 and 36, already convicted in the past, also demonstrate ” attraction to jihad », According to the Pnat.
Rémi M. presents him with a different profile: aged 54, his criminal record is empty. If he is converted to Islam and also considered as “radicalized” (he will declare during the investigation that he “no longer likes France”), an evaluation report underlines his “malleable personality”.
For Me Léa Dordilly, lawyer for Hillal A., “ to consider robbing an ATM is a common law project, the profile of its authors is not enough to make it a terrorist project ».
Her colleague, Louise Dumont Saint Priest, lawyer for Kevin B., finds that the Pnat requisitions come ” in a sense, to confirm what we have always said about the absence of a terrorist aim of a possible action ».
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