Rachid Ramda will be retried in Paris in September

Sentenced to life imprisonment for his involvement in three bombings in 1995 in Paris, the Algerian Rachid Ramda will be retried on appeal in Paris from September 16 to October 14, according to the Court of Appeal in Paris.

•     On 26 October 2007, after four weeks of trial, Rachid Ramda was sentenced to life imprisonment with a security sentence of 22 years. The Special Court of Paris had followed the requisition of the General Counsel, who had requested the maximum sentence.
  
      He was convicted of complicity of murder and murder attempt for an attack on 25 July 1995, at the Saint-Michel metro station (8 killed, 150 injured), then in October, the stations Maison-Blanche and Musée d'Orsay making dozens injured.
  
      Sentenced in 2006 to ten years imprisonment in the criminal aspect of the case, he was in 2002 absent at the criminal trial which had resulted in the sentencing to prison for life of Boualem Bensaïd and Smain Ait Ali Belkacem recognized as the two main perpetrators of the attacks.
  
      Ramda, who has always denied the facts, is accused of having financed the attacks on behalf of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) of Algeria from London where he was installed.
  
      Arrested in London on 4 November 1995, he had been extradited from Great Britain ten years later after a battle procedure.
  
      This trial will be the tenth on the attacks in 1995.
  
      
  Ennaharonline/ M. O.