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French IS jihadist who held journalists gets life sentence

March 21, 2025 Marie Dhumieres  

(AFP) A French court on Friday sentenced a French jihadist to life in prison for holding four journalists captive more than a decade ago in war-torn Syria. Mehdi Nemmouche, 39, was convicted of having held the French reporters hostage for the Islamic […]

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Daughter of British IS victim reads last texts to him at France trial

February 21, 2025 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) The daughter of [a] murdered British aid worker this week at the Paris trial of two of his presumed Islamic State group jailers recounted her anguish after her father went missing in war-torn Syria in 2013. In a Paris court on […]

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France tries five for holding reporters hostage in Syria

February 17, 2025 Marie Dhumieres  

(AFP) Five men went on trial in France on Monday charged with holding four French journalists hostage for the Islamic State jihadist group in war-torn Syria more than a decade ago. IS emerged in 2013 in the chaos that followed the outbreak […]

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Brussels museum gunman linked to other jihadists

January 15, 2019 Clément Zampa  

(AFP) The Frenchman accused of murdering four people at the Jewish Museum of Belgium had links with other jihadists, including those behind the Brussels and Paris attacks, investigators say. At least one lawyer wants to see if defendant Mehdi Nemmouche sheds more […]

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