ALERT: Repatriated, a young woman retried for joining Daesh in Syria
Sources confirm that the following story has emerged from the international scene.
A “ghost”, sentenced to twenty years of criminal imprisonment by default in 2020, has been retried since Monday by the special assize court of Paris. She had stayed in Syria within the Islamic State group between 2014 and 2016. According to the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office, cited by Le Monde, she is the first French woman repatriated from a jihad zone to be retried in this way after having been sentenced in her absence. Other women who joined the jihadist group are to be tried in the coming months in Paris. Without any religious education. Leaving in the spring of 2014, Emilie K., now 34, explained to the court that she wanted to join her husband, a fighter within the IS, with whom she was madly in love and with whom she had been in a relationship since she was 16. “He knew that I was emotionally dependent,” she detailed. He was the one who had control over me, he could have spared me all this. »As the national daily recounts, Emilie K. was raised by a single mother in Savoie, in Albertville. She received no religious education but began fasting during Ramadan around the age of 12 to imitate her friends, she told investigators. Her journey is linked to Mohamed Tahar Tamine. She had known the young man for several years. As children, they played football together, Emilie K’s great passion. They began a relationship at the age of 16, then married religiously at 19 and moved in together. Mohammed Tahar Tamime begins to attend a Salafist mosque in Albertville, becomes more and more radical, orders her to wear the veil when she goes out with him, and expresses the wish to go to Syria. A few months later, he left to join ISIS. “My life without him no longer had any meaning” “My life without him no longer had any meaning, for me it was unthinkable to leave him,” she told the court. In Syria, Emilie K. says she has not witnessed any IS atrocities, and has just taken care of her home. At the end of July 2016, her husband was killed during fighting in Manbij. She is a widow, without children. She wants to leave, fearing she will be remarried. She fled with another female member of ISIS. On the road, Emilie K. was raped by a smuggler, then kidnapped for four years by fighters of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), who were fighting at the time against the troops of the fallen regime of Bashar al-Assad. Released in 2020, she was arrested in Turkey, spent time in a detention center, then lived in Gaziantep, before the Turkish authorities sent her back to a detention center. Sentenced by default to twenty years of imprisonment in 2020, she first refused to return to France for fear of having to serve this sentence, before being repatriated in April 2023. Placed in pre-trial detention, she was released on an electronic bracelet a year later. Verdict Thursday Since then, she has found work in catering, and even climbed the ranks of her company, said her employer, a friend of her mother who explained that she wanted to help her when she got out from prison. The verdict is scheduled for Thursday. She theoretically faces the maximum penalty of thirty years in prison provided for “terrorist criminal association”. “Emilie left Syria, risking her life, in August 2016, the second her husband died. It has been a long time since she has been a subject of concern for anyone,” her lawyer, Michaël Bendavid, told Le Monde.
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