The case is the first to involve a group of women attempting to stage an attack in France, which has been repeatedly targeted by jihadists since 2015, causing the loss of 255 lives.
The two main defendants, Ines Madani and Ornella Gilligmann, had doused the car with diesel in the middle of the night and tried but failed to set it alight with a cigarette.The women are believed to have been acting on the orders of Rachid Kassim, a French Islamic State propagandist also suspected of ordering the grisly murder of a French police couple at their home in June 2016.
A fifth woman, Samia Chalel, was also tried for allegedly helping hide Madani. She was sentenced to five years in prison. Madani’s lawyers described her as a lonely young woman with half-baked attack plans and a death wish – a far cry from the prosecution’s characterisation of a determined gang of would-be killers.“At the time all my plans involved death. Today, my plans are about life,” she said.
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