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May 4th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Hicheur “knowingly agreed with Mustapha Debchi to set up an operational
cell ready to carry out terrorist acts in Europe and in France,”
they added.
Security service became suspicious of Hicheur after a statement from al-Qaeda
in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the Algerian terror group, was sent to
President Nicolas Sarkozy in early 2008.
Surveillance was carried out on a number of email accounts including
Hicheur’s, and when police searched his parents’ house they uncovered
al-Qaeda and Islamist militant literature.
During his trial in March, prosecutors described the defendant as a “budding
terrorist” and “a man who had everything going for him … but
just got led astray in a radical jihadist Islam.”
Algerian-born Hicheur told the court he had been going through a “turbulent”
period of life and was in an impaired physical and psychological state when
he wrote the emails while on sick leave for a slipped disc.
He admitted reading jihadist websites but denied intending to carry out any
attacks, and claimed he had been the victim of overly strict French
anti-terror laws.
His lawyer called the verdict “scandalous”, claiming that
prosecutors had attempted to “demonise” his client and turn him
into “France’s most dangerous terrorist”.
The defence was not helped by the timing of the trial which came a week after
seven people died in a terror attack on the French cities of Toulouse and
Montauban, they added.
Hicheur, who has already spent two and a half years behind bars while awaiting
trial, was told he could have been sentenced to up to 10 years in prison but
he received just five years with a sixth suspended.
Lawyers said he had not decided whether to appeal the sentence but added that
if he chooses not to, then with good behaviour he could be free “rather
quickly”.
Sources: AFP; AP
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