{"id":2860,"date":"2011-11-30T09:34:58","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T09:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/11\/mali-french-embassy-attacker-sentenced-to-death\/"},"modified":"2011-11-30T09:34:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T09:34:58","slug":"mali-french-embassy-attacker-sentenced-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/11\/30\/mali-french-embassy-attacker-sentenced-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali: French Embassy Attacker Sentenced to Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rnw.nl\/africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/rnw180.png\" alt=\"Radio Netherlands Worldwide (Hilversum)\" title=\"Visit Radio Netherlands Worldwide (Hilversum)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>29 November 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>A 24-year-old Tunisian was sentenced to death in Mali on Tuesday for an attack on the French embassy in Bamako in January, his lawyer said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My client, who was tried on Monday for terrorism and escaping from prison, was sentenced to death&#8221; by a court in Bamako, Bachir Simoun&#8217;s lawyer Waly Diawara told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Simoun, armed with a hand gun, an explosive device and a grenade, attacked the embassy on January 5. A Malian later died of injuries sustained in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Simoun escaped from prison in February while awaiting trial, but was arrested in Gao in the north of Mali two days later.<\/p>\n<p>The jailbreak led to the sacking of the director of state security Mami Coulibaly and several men responsible for guarding the prisoner in a secret location.<\/p>\n<p>Simoun had claimed membership of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, but had acted alone, according to investigators.<\/p>\n<p>While capital punishment can still be imposed by Malian courts, it has not been carried out for years. &#8211; <em>ANP\/AFP<\/em><\/p>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 29 November 2011 A 24-year-old Tunisian was sentenced to death in Mali on Tuesday for an attack on the French embassy in Bamako in January, his lawyer said. &#8220;My client, who was tried on Monday for terrorism and escaping from prison, was sentenced to death&#8221; by a court in Bamako, Bachir Simoun&#8217;s lawyer Waly Diawara told AFP. Simoun, armed with a hand gun, an explosive device and a grenade, attacked the embassy on January 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mali: French Embassy Attacker Sentenced to Death - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/11\/30\/mali-french-embassy-attacker-sentenced-to-death\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Mali: French Embassy Attacker Sentenced to Death - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"29 November 2011 A 24-year-old Tunisian was sentenced to death in Mali on Tuesday for an attack on the French embassy in Bamako in January, his lawyer said. &quot;My client, who was tried on Monday for terrorism and escaping from prison, was sentenced to death&quot; by a court in Bamako, Bachir Simoun&#039;s lawyer Waly Diawara told AFP. 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