France, March 24 -- Mondjehi, now 44, is contesting the 30-year prison sentence handed down to him in 2024 for obtaining a gun used by Cherif Chekatt in the December 2018 attack in which he killed five people and injured 11 others.

Mondjehi's sentence includes a mandatory minimum term of two-thirds of the sentence during which no early release is possible. He faces life imprisonment if found guilty on appeal.

Chekatt was shot dead by police after a two-day manhunt.

French court hands Strasbourg attack plotter 30-year prison term Knowledge of radicalisation

At the heart of the appeal lies a key question - whether Mondjehi knew about Chekatt's radicalisation.

The first court ruled that he "was aware of the violent radicalisat...