2023-10-18 13:43:00
The prosecutor requested, on Wednesday, before the Brussels criminal court, an eight-year prison sentence against the Frenchman Mohamed Benabdelhak for an attempted escape from Saint-Gilles prison in April 2014. The magistrate estimated that this notorious drug trafficker was aware of his accomplices’ plans to try to get him to escape. The first hearing of this trial was held under high security at the Brussels Courthouse.
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“Mr. Benabdelhak knew very well what scenario was being written. He knew what was going to happen,” explained the prosecutor, specifying that telephone contacts appear between Mohamed Benabdelhak and Djawed A., “his faithful lieutenant” in the criminal organization he leads, active in drug trafficking.
“I consider that Mr. Benabdelhak is co-author of the escape attempt, because he accepted all the possible consequences of this plan which was developed to get him out. It is not for nothing that he was asked to his French lawyer to come see him on April 13 in the prison visiting room. It was to place him in the right place at the right time in order to make him escape.”
The representative of the public prosecutor considered that the “pedigree” of Mohamed Benabdelhak was not a secret to anyone. “He is the baron of the city of Creil (northern France). He has numerous criminal records in France,” he said.
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Concerning Djawed A., the prosecutor requested a sentence of seven years in prison. “It was he who set up the escape plan by asking the lawyer to come to the prison so that Mohamed Benabdelhak was in the visiting room and not in his cell,” he said. “And he did the scouting for the first escape attempt.”
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