The Last Member of the "Rubaix Gang" Before the Courts After Twenty-Seven Years of Cavalry
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Seddik Benbahlouli is scheduled to appear before the Northern Assize Court from Friday for retrial, including for "trying to kill" two police officers, "theft with arms" and "association of criminals." In 2001, he was sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison.
Seddik Benbahlouli appeared from this Friday, October 17 in front of the Douai (North) assize court. On the run for twenty-seven years, sentenced in absentia in 2001 to twenty years in prison for a series of extremely violent robberies, he did not acquiesce to his sanction and was therefore retried.
Seddik Benbahlouli, the last fugitive of the Roubaix gang arrested after 27 years of cavalry, refused to appear before the Douai Assize Court and tried to leave the box of the accused by force, causing an interruption of the hearing. Back on a high-tension trial. Start of tension trials in Douai...
The trial of Seddik Benbahlouli, the last member of the "Rubaix gang" after 27 years of cavalry, opened on Friday, October 17 in front of the northern court. In the mid-1990s, this group mixing great banditry and radical Islamism sowed terror in the region.
The cellular van carrying Seddik Benbahloulil arrives at the Douai court, after his extradition from the United States, in Douai (North), on 20 October 2023. BAZIZ CHIBANE/ "VOIX DU NORD"/MAXPPP In radio contact with the Roubaix police station, Philippe Gouget shouts: "Top priority! We were shot, a colleague is hit! Both individuals took the flight." A few moments later, new exchanges: "It's panic there! He's behind it, he's not far away. He too…
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