(AFP) A Iraqi court Monday sentenced to death two more French nationals for joining the Islamic State group, leaving all 11 Frenchmen transferred from Syria facing the gallows and potentially opening the door for other cases.
Bilel Kabaoui, 32, and Mourad Delhomme, 41, join nine other French citizens and a Tunisian national already on death row after trials over the past week. They have 30 days to appeal the sentences.
The group was handed over to Iraqi authorities early this year by a US-backed force in Syria which expelled IS from its last bastion.
On the stand in Baghdad, Delhomme said he was “known within IS as the one who never pledged allegiance or worked” for the ultra-extremist group.
