At the trial of alleged IS jailers, the defence denies the role of Mehdi Nemmouche, "ideal torturer"

Mehdi Nemmouche, a jihadist accused of being a jailer in the pay of the Islamic State (IS) group, which held several journalists hostage in Syria in 2013, declared in his final statement before the Special Jury Court in Paris that he would not...

The prosecution demanded life imprisonment against Mehdi Nemmouche. The verdict of the Paris Special Assize Court is expected this Friday.

On Thursday, 20 March, Mehdi Nemmouche's defence attempted, at the trial of former ISIS hostages in Syria, to argue that the accused had never been their jailer.

IS jailers trial: Life sentence requested for 'one of the most perverse jihadists of the last 10 years'

The maximum sentence was sought for the 'perverse' Mehdi Nemmouche and two other defendants, presumed dead and tried in absentia.

Mehdi Nemmouche was sentenced this Friday to life, accompanied by a period of 22 years of security, in the trial of ex-Daesh hostages in Syria. More

In his last speech at his trial, Mehdi Nemmouche said on Friday, 21 March, that he would never "apologise" for having been "a terrorist." The jihadist is accused of having detained French journalists on behalf of the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria in 2013. - "I was a terrorist and I will never apologize," Mehdi Nemmouche said on the last day of his trial (Police, justice and other facts). TF1 INFO