The Paris Court of Appeal on Thursday March 4 reduced the sentence imposed on the mother of a jihadist, presumed dead in Syria, by sentencing her to one year in prison suspended for financing terrorism, instead of two years in prison firm inflicted at first instance.
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The defendant, Nathalie Haddadi, was not present when the decision was announced.
The justice accused him of having sent money to his son, Belabbas Bounaga, but also of having helped this young Franco-Algerian delinquent radicalized in prison to leave France, while he was targeted by an exit ban. of the territory.
At the end of the trial at first instance, in 2017, she was sentenced to two years in prison, without a committal warrant.
Before the court, the forty-something had explained in 2017 that she simply wanted to "
help
" her child, "
to eat
", "to
be treated
".
But the court considered that she had financed terrorism well by paying him plane tickets and sending him money, while he was in Malaysia, part of his journey to Syria, where he had joined the jihadist organization Islamic State (IS).
Belabbas Bounaga probably died in action in the Iraqi-Syrian zone in August 2016. He was 21 years old.
His mother remains registered with the perpetrators of terrorist offenses (Fijait).