(Radio France) A Paris court sentenced a French woman to 12 years in prison for two stays in Syria and territory controlled by the Islamic State armed group.
Douha Mounib, 32, was found guilty of associating with terrorists in her two stays in Syria, between 2013 and 2017.
The special court noted her “uncommon determination” to join the Islamic State armed group.
In court Mounib detailed her radicalisation in 2012 and her desire to go to Syria that turned into an “obsession.”
In 2012, after watching propaganda videos, [she] quit her midwife studies and started wearing a veil. She first went to Syria in 2013, traveling from Morocco to Turkey, where she married a smuggler, who helped her cross the border.
