When I saw news about this terror trial, I tried to remember the atrocity at issue. It happened at a Christmas market in Strasbourg in December of 2018. Four people were killed and eleven others wounded by gunshots and/or knife wounds. The attacker was killed by police, so it was an accomplice who was just convicted.

We must have covered it at the time, maybe posted a subtitled video or a translated article, but I can’t really remember, because there have been so many of them. Twenty years ago, when I first started blogging about jihad atrocities, they only occurred occasionally, so I was able to retain some of the details of each one. Now they all kind of blur together.

The convicted mujahid is an Ivorian named Audrey Mondjehi who supplied the gun for the terrorist who carried out attack. Despite his name, Audrey is male. At least I hope I’m not misgendering zher. I have to be careful about that, in case I might one day find myself in Scotland.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from France Bleu:

Strasbourg attack trial: Sentenced to thirty years, Audrey Mondjehi is appealing

The day after the verdict pronounced by the Special Criminal Court of Paris in the Strasbourg attack trial, on Friday Audrey Mondjehi’s lawyer announced his intention to appeal.

by Celine Rousseau
April 5, 2024

Audrey Mondjehi will file an appeal of the verdict that was handed down Thursday by the Special Criminal Court of Paris, one of this lawyers, Attorney Michael Wacquez, indicated on Friday when asked by France Bleu Alsace. Audrey Mondjehi was found guilty of association with terrorist criminals in the trial of the attack on the Strasbourg Christmas Market in 2018 and sentenced to thirty years’ imprisonment.

“He doesn’t understand the extraordinary treatment reserved for him.”

“We cannot be content with an acquittal on the charge of complicity in murder and, at the same time, a guilty verdict and heavy sentence for association with terrorist criminals,” stated Attorney Wacquez. “There is a particular context, the Olympic games that are coming; we are on attack alert, Cherif Chekatt is no longer here, and the empty chair can leave a bitter taste at the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office. A conviction is, perhaps, necessary, and Audrey Mondjehi has been designated as guilty.”

“He does not understand the extraordinary treatment reserved for him. He has never been directly or indirectly involved in any religious act. He does not understand why the Special Criminal Court finds that the connections he had with Cherif Chekatt would necessarily result in the knowledge of a terrorist plan against the Christmas Market.”

The attack with revolver and knife, perpetrated on December 11, 2018 by Cherif Chekatt, resulted in four deaths and eleven injuries at the Strasbourg Christmas Market. The perpetrator of the acts was killed by police two days later.

Two other defendants, found guilty of common law criminal association, were sentenced to five years in prison. They will not return to detention because either the sentence is covered by time served in pre-trial detention, or, for the other, because she will wear an electronic bracelet. A fourth defendant was acquitted.