Overview

• The verdict assigns two 20-year terms and one 18-year term, going beyond the prosecutor’s requests of 17, 18 and 20 years.
• The case was tried as “meurtre avec guet-apens,” a legal classification equivalent to assassination in French law.
• Investigators say the attackers lured 22-year-old Philippe Coopman via the chat site Cocoland by posing as a minor girl.
• During the trial, parties confirmed that Coopman was mistakenly targeted, according to the family’s lawyer.
• The court added sociojudicial supervision of five and seven years with court-ordered treatment to the prison sentences.