A ‘victim of his illness’: the student was arrested in front of the Élysée Palace and put on trial for glorifying terrorism.
The strange personality of a law student from Crépy-en-Valois (Oise) kept the judges in Senlis busy for a long time on Wednesday. The young man, who had been accused of glorifying terrorism at his university in Paris, suffered from psychological problems and was finally acquitted.
On October 26, 24-year-old law student Yann N., who has Ivorian nationality and lives in Crépy-en-Valois (Oise), was arrested by the Garde Républicains at the gates of the Élysée Palace. The services specialising in counter-terrorism had taken an interest in this young man, who had been put on the alert the previous day by the dean of his law school in Paris following a message posted in a WhatsApp group by students. In a PDF document, Yann N. commenced with long, unclear statements in which he apparently praised the attacks of 9/11 in New York and that of October 7, 2023 on Israeli soil.
The inconspicuous student quickly deleted the post, but his fellow students were so shocked that they alerted the dean, who then filed a complaint and submitted screenshots to the police. Yann N., who was not at his home in Crépy-en-Valois, was eventually arrested in front of the presidential palace, where he had planned to visit an exhibition on French know-how. Investigators found numerous search queries on his computer relating to terrorist attacks and Islamic State videos. A draft plan for a hypothetical terrorist attack in the Châtelet-Les Halles metro station was discovered on his mobile phone, complete with a schedule and instructions.
[…] Le Parisien