Overview
- The Paris appeals court, which ruled Friday, confirmed Audrey Mondjehi’s 30-year term, set a 20-year no-parole period, and ordered his permanent ban from French territory.
- The 20-year safety period means he cannot receive parole or any early-release measures during those two decades.
- Judges found he helped Chérif Chekatt get the pistol used at Strasbourg’s Christmas market, where five people were killed and eleven were injured in December 2018.
- Mondjehi says he did not know Chekatt was radicalized, and he had known him since they met in detention in 2007.
- In earlier proceedings, two other intermediaries received four- and five-year sentences while a third was acquitted, and the elderly seller who supplied the gun was deemed medically unfit to stand trial.