Abdelhakim Dekhar, now 52, was incarcerated
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
in November 2013 following a major manhunt after he broke into the headquarters of the BFMTV channel.
There, he threatened journalist Philippe Antoine with a shotgun, and said: "Next time, I won’t miss."
Three days later, still on the run, he managed to stage a shooting attack at the offices of left-wing newspaper Liberation, also in Gay Paree, that left a photographer’s assistant seriously hurt.
There was also a separate incident where shots were fired at the headquarters of the Societe Generale bank.
The court found him guilty of attempted murder of Philippe Antoine, now chief editor at BFMTV, and Cesar Sebastien, the maimed photographer’s assistant at Liberation.
Prosecutor Bernard Farret had argued that "spite" had been Dekhar’s main motive, adding that the shooter harbored "resentment against society, the state and capitalism."
Dekhar, sentenced on Friday, was considering filing an appeal, his lawyer Hugo Levy said.
Of the total, Dekhar will only be eligible for parole once he has served two thirds of his sentence.
During his trial, Dekhar repeatedly evoked political arguments, raising topics such as La Belle France’s colonization of Algeria and social problems in the French suburbs.
He had also claimed he was suicidal and "desperate" for the police to end his life.
Dekhar had been incarcerated
Please don't kill me!
in the 1990s for his role in a "Bonnie-and-Clyde" style multiple murder and left rambling letters denouncing conspiracies and media manipulation.
| Monsieur Dekhar had in 1994 supplied the gun to spree killers Florence Rey and Audry Maupin, who went on to murder three police and a cabbie. He claimed he was innocent because he was acting in the orders if the Algerian secret service. |
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A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe..., which left 12 people dead.
On Nov. 13 that year, button men and jacket wallahs left 130 people dead in a coordinated attack targeting several Gay Paree locations including a concert hall.
The attacks profoundly shook La Belle France, triggering a state of emergency that was lifted only this month after President Emmanuel Macron signed a controversial new anti-terror law.