Overview
- Iraqi investigators say Guihal and 46 other French nationals transferred from Syria in July will face trial in Iraq, with interrogations of the 47 ongoing.
- Guihal is accused of lending his voice to Islamic State audio claims for the 2016 Nice attack that killed 86 people and the Magnanville police murders.
- He joined ISIS in 2015, was arrested in Raqqa in May 2018, and spent years in Kurdish-run detention before being moved to Iraq this summer.
- His lawyer says France did not officially notify the family of the transfer, calls an Iraqi trial illogical because he never went to Iraq, and urges repatriation.
- Iraqi courts have issued hundreds of death sentences and life terms in terrorism cases; 11 French sentenced to death in 2019 later had their sentences commuted to life, and rights groups criticize the speed of such proceedings.