(AFP) A French appeal court on Tuesday increased a jihadist’s sentence for his senior role with the Islamic State group in Syria from 30 years to life in prison. Frenchman Tyler Vilus had already been convicted for his work with the IS […]
(AFP) A French jihadist given a 30-year jail term last week for crimes committed in Syria will be retried after prosecutors appealed Thursday seeking life imprisonment. On Friday, a court jailed Tyler Vilus, 30, for crimes committed between 2013 and 2015 when […]
(Reuters) A Frenchman who converted to Islam and went abroad to fight for Islamic State was sentenced by a Paris court on Friday to 30 years in prison in France’s first successful prosecution of an Islamist militant for crimes committed in Syria. […]
(Radio France) Prosecutors on Friday called for the maximum life sentence for French jihadist Tyler Vilus, who is on trial for crimes that were allegedly committed in Syria. The son of a radicalised woman known as “Jihadi Gran,” he is believed to […]
(Radio France) French jihadist Tyler Vilus appeared before the Paris criminal court on [Thursday] for the start of a week-long trial into his role within the Islamic State armed group where he is accused of serving as an “emir.” He faces life […]
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