(National-UAE) An unprecedented trial of six women accused after a failed car bombing close to Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris sheds new light on the recruitment, manipulation and deployment of females by terrorists.
The Paris court is also judging a major ISIS figure alleged to have inspired this and other attacks in France from Iraq or Syria.
But Rachid Kassim, a former youth worker and failed rapper from provincial France, is not in the dock.
He is believed to have been killed by a US strike in Mosul in 2017 but is being tried in his absence because his death remains unconfirmed.
As the case nears its end, prosecutors have asked the court to pass a life sentence on Kassim and terms of up to 30 years’ imprisonment for the women and another man tried with them.
