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Brother of Toulouse killer given 30 years for aiding Jewish school attack
[IsraelTimes] Abdelkader Merah found to have helped in 2012 terror spree in which soldiers, rabbi and three children were killed; prosecution had requested life term.

A Gay Paree appeal court on Thursday handed a 30-year jail term to Abdelkader Merah,
...known in the neighbourhood as “Bin Laden”, Abdelkader and his younger brother Mohammed walked the common path from petty crime to prison to jihad. Sister Souad and her four children fled to ISIS in Syria after Mohammed got himself killed...
brother of a French jihadist who rubbed out seven people, finding him guilty of being an accomplice in the 2012 murders.

The verdict was received in silence in the courtroom, before sobs broke out among the victim’s relatives in the public gallery.

Merah, 36, had in 2017 been tossed in the calaboose
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
 for 20 years being part of a terrorist conspiracy but had been cleared, by the lower court, of having a direct hand in his brother’s shooting spree.

The appeal court decision, reached after 12 hours of deliberations, the 30-year term falling short of the prosecution’s request for a life term for Merah.

His brother Mohammed Merah
...the Algerian-French "lone wolf" who trained in Pakistan with Jund al-Khilafah" (Army of the Caliph), linked to a Belgian jihadi network and Al Qaeda in North Africa. Quite possibly Md. was a French informant before going on an 8-day killing spree that ended with his dramatic death in a shootout with French police...
killed three soldiers in March 2012 before turning his sights on a Jewish school in Toulouse
...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France...
, where he bumped off a rabbi, two of the rabbi’s children, aged three and five, and an eight-year-old girl.

The attack was the deadliest on Jews in La Belle France in three decades and marked the advent of a new threat from French-born turbans goaded by foreign terror groups to strike their homeland.

Mohammed Merah was killed by police after a 32-hour siege at his home, three days after the school assault.

The trial of Merah’s older brother and mentor Abdelkader was the first in connection with a string of attacks that have claimed the lives of over 240 people in La Belle France in recent years.

The appeal court also reduced the sentence of Fettah Malki, a friend of the Merah brothers, from 14 to 10 years, found guilty of associating with known criminals, rather than the greater crime of terrorist conspiracy.

It was Malki who supplied Mohammed Merah with a machine gun and a bullet-proof vest was also convicted of a terrorist conspiracy.
Posted by: trailing wife 2019-04-19
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