Overview

• The trial of Michaël Chiolo and four co-accused begins June 2 at the Paris special assizes court and is scheduled to run until July 4, 2025.
• Prison officers Olivier and Yannick will testify publicly for the first time about the severe head, chest and abdominal wounds they suffered during the 2019 stabbing.
• Chiolo and his wife, Hanane Aboulhana, attacked two guards with a knife in the family visiting unit at Condé-sur-Sarthe before a ten-hour siege ended with a RAID intervention.
• Chiolo, serving a 30-year sentence for a 2012 murder, was radicalized in prison and received an extra year behind bars for glorifying terrorism.
• The proceedings are set to probe how Chiolo’s radicalization unfolded inside the prison system and examine security shortcomings at the facility.