The Paris Special Assize Court sentenced Youssef Tihlah on Friday March 15 to twenty-four years in prison, with two-thirds security, for the car attack in Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine). , on April 27, 2020. He drove his car into a group of police officers who were checking a vehicle on Boulevard de Valmy. Two motorcycle police officers were seriously injured.
Earlier in the day, the Attorney General had requested thirty years of imprisonment, including a security period of twenty years, against this 33-year-old man, tried for attempted assassinations of persons holding public authority. in connection with a terrorist enterprise. The trial had been taking place since Monday.