One of the authors of the murderous attacks of 1995, Boualem Bensaïd, will be released on August 1. He received the green light from the Paris Court of Appeal after a request for liberation, subject to expulsion to Algeria, learned the agency France-Presse (AFP) from a judicial source this Friday.
The 57 -year -old has just spent almost thirty years in prison. He was notably convicted of having laid the bomb that exploded in the RER B, at Saint-Michel station on July 25, 1995, killing eight and 150 injured. Sentenced in 2002 to life with a 22 -year -old security period, the former soldier of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) had seen his sentence confirmed on appeal a year later.
He had also been found guilty of having deposited the bomb that exploded on October 6, 1995 near the White House station in the 13th arrondissement. 18 people had been injured. Its complicity was finally recognized in the RER C attack at the Musée d’Orsay station on October 17, 1995 (30 injured).
Judged alongside Smaïn Aït Ali Belkacem, the group fireworks, Boualem Bensaïd was particularly provocative at the hearing, interrupting the judges and denigrating those he called the “so-called victims” of his actions.