The mother of American journalist James Foley, killed in 2014 by a cell of the jihadist group Islamic State, welcomed this Wednesday the indictment in the United States of two of them, hoping that other indictments would follow.
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"I pray for the strength to face and I pray for more justice to be done in the future,"
Diane Foley told AFP.
"There were a lot of victims, Jim was not the only one."
Detained so far in Iraq, Alexanda Kotey, 36, and El Shafee el-Sheikh, 32, are due to be presented to a federal judge in Alexandria, near Washington on Wednesday, who are due to detail the charges against them. : hostage-taking, organized gang murders and support for a terrorist enterprise.
Deprived of British nationality, they were part of a quartet nicknamed by its hostages "the Beatles" because of the English accent of its members.
The cell's most prominent figure, Mohammed Emwazi, nicknamed “Jihadi John”, was killed in an American bombing raid on Syria in November 2015. The fourth “Beatle” remains imprisoned in Turkey.
"I never wanted the death penalty"
Writer and videographer, James Foley covered the uprising against the Bashar al-Assad regime for various media, including Agence France-Presse (AFP).
On August 19, 2014, IS posted a video online showing a masked, black-clad man beheading him in retaliation for the US strikes in Iraq.
Diane Foley expressed her
"gratitude"
to American justice for having promised to avoid the death penalty to the two jihadists in order to obtain legal aid from the British authorities.
“I never wanted the death penalty,”
she said.
"I think they need an opportunity to realize what they have done to so many innocent people
.
"
"These young men were not the instigators of this plan,"
she noted.
"They were part of it, for sure, they apparently participated voluntarily
.
"
Diane Foley hoped that the two jihadists could during their trial
"incriminate others who may still be hiding in other parts of Europe or in certain refugee camps"
.
The trial will be
"an important step in showing the world that we have to hold these people to account otherwise it will be impossible to put an end to the terror they have inflicted on so many people
.
"
