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Court sentences 4 men to prison for 2004 mosque burning in French Alps The Associated Press Published: December 8, 2006 SEVRIER, France: A court on Friday convicted three former soldiers and a soccer hooligan of fire-bombing a mosque and a Muslim prayer hall in the French Alps two years ago. The criminal court in the town of Sevrier, a suburb of eastern Annecy, handed down sentences of up to five years in prison for the four men, who are suspected of having ties to far-right groups. The men, all in their 20s, were convicted on charges of religiously motivated attacks that seriously damaged an Annecy mosque in March 2004 as well as a makeshift prayer hall in a garage in the Annecy suburb of Seynod. At the time, President Jacques Chirac condemned the attacks as "odious acts," and hundreds of people held a silent vigil in protest. Michel Guegan, a 25-year-old former soldier in France's elite Alpine unit who is now homeless, was given a five-year prison sentence for his role as the alleged ringleader. Nicolas Paz, 29, a former hooligan in a Paris Saint-Germain fan club, was also sentenced to five years in jail, with one year suspended. Anthony Savino, 24, another former soldier, was given five years, with two of them suspended. The fourth man, Damien Gallaud, 25, considered a "consenting follower," received a three-year sentence with two years suspended. A fifth man, 23-year-old former soldier Bruno Abello, received an eight-month suspended sentence for helping to cover up the crime. Before the ruling, the four main suspects expressed their regrets to the Muslim community. The sentences were lighter than that sought by Prosecutor Herve Lhomme, who had asked the court to send a "strong signal toward all havens of intolerance" with prison sentences of up to nine years. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
