(AFP) A French court on Friday handed jail sentences of up to 13 years to three women for joining the Islamic State group in Syria, including the niece of notorious jihadist propagandist brothers. Jennyfer Clain, 34, whose uncles Jean-Michel and Fabien Clain […]
(AFP) France on Tuesday repatriated three women and 10 children from Syrian camps housing alleged jihadists, anti-terror prosecutors said, in the first such operation in two years. Repatriation is a deeply sensitive issue in France, which has been a target of Islamists […]
(National-UAE) A 34-year-old French woman who travelled with relatives to Syria to join her husband, an ISIS fighter, has expressed regret about joining the extremist group and said she takes responsibility for her actions. Jennyfer Clain was speaking in Paris at the […]
(Radio France) Three French women — members of the Clain family who converted to fundamentalist Islam and travelled to Iraq and Syria to join the Islamic State armed group — go on trial Monday in Paris on charges of terrorist criminal association. […]
(Brussels Times) Former French jihadist Jonathan Geffroy (41) was sentenced on Friday to 18 years in prison by the Paris Special Assise Court for his involvement with the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group from 2015 to 2017. Geffroy, who claims to be […]
(UnHerd) When two young men embellish a Toulouse FC replica shirt with the name of the city’s most notorious mass murderer, is it just a sick and provocative gag, or evidence of sympathy for the killer’s worldview? Earlier this month, the French […]
(Radio France) Frenchman Jonathan Geffroy is accused of terrorist offences in Syria, as are his wife and mother. [Geffroy] has provided valuable information for French anti-terrorism investigators. Geffroy, 40, sits alone in the prisoner’s box at the Paris Special Criminal Court. His […]
(AP) A total of 20 men were convicted Wednesday over the 2015 Paris attacks by Islamic State extremists on the Bataclan theater, Paris cafes and the national stadium. Most attention has focused on the lone surviving member of the attack team, Salah […]
(Radio France) In the final week of hearings before the winter break, the special criminal court in Paris heard from the relatives of some of the dead terrorists involved in the November 2015 attacks. A senior police investigator, meanwhile, warned that similar […]
(Radio France) This has been the week of the Clain family at the Paris attacks trial. On Tuesday, a police witness described the careers of Fabien and Jean-Michel Clain, directors of the IS propaganda effort, both presumed dead in Syria. On Wednesday, […]
(Radio France) Tuesday’s session of the Paris attacks trial was dominated by a police report on the Clain family of jihadist extremists. The court also heard from the father of a dead terrorist, another man mystified by the transformation of … his […]
(AFP) The biggest trial in France’s modern legal history begins on Wednesday over the November 2015 attacks on Paris that saw 130 people slaughtered at bars, restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall. The suicide bombing and gun assault by three teams of […]
(Radio France) Since the fall of the self-proclaimed caliphate in Syria and Iraq in October 2019, the threat of mass terror attacks has waned. But a new book shows home-grown French jihadists still pose a threat as they seek to reconfigure themselves […]
(Breitbart) Hugo Micheron, a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), has claimed that the rise in jihadist activity in France and Belgium is directly linked to “neglected” enclaves and prisons in the two countries. Micheron interviewed 80 jihadists […]
(AFP) French prosecutors called Friday for 20 suspects to go on trial over the massacre of 130 people by suicide bombers and gunmen in Paris four years ago. In a 562-page indictment, the office of the national anti-terror prosecutor (PNAT) charged 14 […]
(AFP) A French court on Wednesday jailed Anne Diana Clain, whose two brothers were notorious propagandists for Islamic State, for nine years for terrorist association. Paris’s criminal courts handed down the sentence to Clain, 44, for having attempted between 2015 and 2016 […]
(Xinhua) France has brought home two French mothers and their nine children from families that had fought with Islamic State (IS) insurgents in Syria, local media reported on Tuesday. The children, aged between 3 and 13 years, reached French soil early on […]
(AFP) An Iraqi court on Monday condemned a fourth French citizen to death for joining the Islamic State group, a day after handing capital punishments to three other Frenchmen. Mustapha Merzoughi, 37, was sentenced to death by hanging, according to an AFP […]
(Yle) A journalist writing on Twitter on Wednesday said that he had encountered a Finnish woman living in an area in Syria controlled by the extremist organisation Islamic State. Kurdish affairs analyst and journalist Mutlu Civiroglu tweeted that the woman came to […]
(AFP) Prominent French jihadist Jean-Michel Clain was killed last month, his wife told AFP Tuesday after fleeing the last redoubt of the Islamic State group in eastern Syria. Clain’s wife Dorothee Maquere said he was killed in mortar shelling after being wounded […]
(AFP) A top French Islamic State jihadist who became notorious after voicing an audio recording claiming responsibility for the November 2015 attacks in Paris has been killed in an overnight airstrike, security sources told AFP. Fabien Clain, who is believed to have […]
(AFP) Two French women who fled the Islamic State group’s last pocket in Syria told AFP on Monday more foreigners were trapped inside, barred from leaving by Iraqi jihadists. The Muslim converts said they paid smugglers to take them out of the […]
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