Summary
Zaheer Mahmood, 29, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for attempting to murder two people with a meat cleaver outside Charlie Hebdo’s former Paris office in 2020.
Influenced by radical Pakistani preacher Khadim Hussain Rizvi, Mahmood attacked two Premieres Lignes employees, mistaking the office for Charlie Hebdo’s, which had relocated after the 2015 al-Qaeda attack.
Five accomplices were jailed for supporting Mahmood. The victims, who suffered severe injuries, rejected Mahmood’s apology.
Mahmood, an illegal immigrant to France since 2017, was also convicted of terrorist conspiracy.
If it makes any of you feel any better, Rizvi also famously berrated and mocked Abdul Sattar Edhi for wasting his time making a volunteer ambulance service before he himself was transported in an Edhi ambulance where he died before reaching the hospital.
It took over 4 years to get a conviction? And I thought the courts here in the US were slow
Putting the burden of proof on the prosecution is part of having a fair justice system, so if you ever want to see convictions on shit like this they need time to gather evidence and build a case
The Hoover Dam was built in less time.
The Hoover dam didn’t have to follow rules intended to protect the civil rights of the accused
Right? My first thought was that there must’ve been another one.
That does not feel long enough for this crime.
That’s the maximum in France.
My mmmerica’s throbbing with rage right now
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Capital punishment. Call it an “honor killing” if the thought makes you queasy.
I think that the state having the authority to kill people is bad, actually.
Even pedophiles?
It is not the severity of the crimes but the risk of executing innocents. A person could be a convicted pedophile but new evidence might reveal that they were innocent.
So you’re okay with imprisoning potentially innocent people for life?
So you’re okay with murdering innocent people?
You a Jordan Peterson guy?
Not sure who that is. I don’t keep up with celebrities like you people do.
Who people?
Well there have been life sentance that have been vacated when new evidence, generally DNA, has come to light proving they were not the culprit. That wouldn’t be possible if they were dead, delayed justice is better than no justice.
Who knows what sort of technological advances we may get in the next 50 years that could free people imprisoned today? Why would we remove the possibility? It’s cheaper to house an inmate for a lifetime than the process of execution so what’s the practical reason to have I act state sanctioned murder?
Revenge? Idk. That doesn’t sound like justice to me.
There have also been life sentences where innocent people die before they’re exonerated.
Also, losing decades of your life for something you didn’t do isn’t any more acceptable because you have the potential of going free if you’re proven innocent.
All you people are saying is you’re cool with imprisoning potentially innocent people for life, which completely nullifies your argument of avoiding the death penalty because “they may be innocent.”
Enough with the BS now. Only someone who is alive can be exonerated.
There have also been life sentences where innocent people die before they’re exonerated.
So… we might as well kill anyways?
At this point, I just have to assume you’re a troll.
Ofcourse! A convicted pedophile is a convicted pedophile until proven innocent.
With a life sentence you can at least get some of your life back if proven innocent. With the death penalty not so much.
So you’re cool with imprisoning potentially innocent people for life, but giving them the death penalty is too much?
With a life sentence you can at least get some of your life back if proven innocent.
Yeah, but what about those who die in prison before they’re proven innocent? What about those that spend decades in prison and have basically nothing to live for when they get out? What about those who lose realistically any of their time due to an innocent conviction?
All of those are acceptable to do to innocent people in your eyes?
Ofcourse! A convicted pedophile is a convicted pedophile until proven innocent.
Lol, funny how you’re all of a sudden putting faith in the verdict when the death penalty isn’t on the line.
Racists never learn.
