Tarnac: prosecutor appeals after the abandonment of the qualification “terrorist” – The World

Is the Tarnac Affair terrorist file? Friday, August 7, the judge conducting the investigation on the instruction of several sabotage TGV lines in 2008 by a small group from the anarcho-autonomous movement has responded negatively to this question. In its order, the judge decided to refer Correctional eight members of the group, the main accused, Julien Coupat, but dropped the qualification of “terrorist.” A decision appealed prosecutors Monday, August 10

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For the prosecution, the investigating judge of the removal order is a scathing repudiation. In his indictment of May 6, the prosecution had asked that the aggravating circumstance of “terrorist enterprise” is retained against three major indicted: Julien Coupat; his companion, Yildune Levy; and his ex-girlfriend Gabrielle Hallez. The Crown considered particularly based on Article 421-1 of the Criminal Code that “damage to property” may constitute acts of terrorism provided they have “to aim of seriously disturbing public order by intimidation or terror “.

This will” seriously disturb public order “, the prosecution motivated by ideology and the the relations of the members of Tarnac group with “international anarchist movement.” The pivot of the accusation was based on the writings of Julien Coupat, considered the “primary feather” – what it has always denied – a “pamphlet” called The Coming Insurrection , published in 2007 by the Invisible Committee.

“A logic of ideological stubbornness”

But the judge instruction, Duyé Jeanne, did not follow this requisition, returning four members of the group, Julien Coupat, correctional for “criminal association” only, and four others for refusing to submit to a test of their DNA and for two of them, for “falsification of administrative documents.”

“The order was unbearable blow to the prosecution, which remains in a logic that has nothing legal but is a logic of ideological stubbornness “, reacted Dosed Marie and William Bourdon, lawyer of the accused. The record of eight members of the Tarnac group – named after the village where corrézien gravitated small libertarian community – will now be examined by the investigating chamber

“It’s going to go. by Court of Cassation, on one side or the other, Marie prognostic Dosed, interviewed by Le Monde . The prosecution seems logical embroiled in a hardliner, and we will go to the Supreme Court if the room of the invalid instruction order. Maybe that finally will result from all this a clear and precise definition of terrorism “

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The Tarnac Affair aroused great controversy in 2008, the government and the interior minister at the time, Michèle Alliot Mary, having been accused of emphasizing exploit its terrorist

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Julien Coupat, 41, and Yildune Levy, 31, acknowledged their presence during the night of 7 to 8 November 2008 at Dhuisy (Seine-et-Marne) near the railway line which passes the TGV East, but still have denied having participated in the laying of a rebar, later found on the catenary. Hook twisted, he had caused extensive damage to the first TGV morning and disrupted traffic.

In addition to the facts of Dhuisy, prosecutors Coupat attributed to Julien, who performed a Just over six months in custody until May 2009, participation in another sabotage of the TGV Est, on the night of October 25 to 26, 2008 in Vigny (Moselle). The investigating judge issued a dismissal in this aspect of the case, but the prosecution appealed.