The court followed the prosecutor’s recommendation, imposing the heaviest sentence – 15 years’ imprisonment with a two-thirds security period and a committal order – on Mirkhan Rasoul, a 26-year-old Iraqi.
Sentences of up to 15 years’ imprisonment were handed down on Tuesday November 5 in Lille to 18 members of a vast smuggling network in the Channelmainly Iraqi-Kurdish. In its deliberations, the court followed the prosecutor’s recommendations, imposing the heaviest sentence – 15 years’ imprisonment with a two-thirds security period and a committal order – on Mirkhan Rasoul, a 26-year-old Iraqi. He is also subject to a permanent ban from French territory and a fine of 200,000 euros.