A French woman, who had joined Syria in 2014 with two children, was indicted and imprisoned on August 13 in France after her expulsion from Turkey, AFP learned Tuesday August 24 from the national anti-terrorism prosecution (Pnat), confirming information from the Parisian.
To read also "For them, I was only a disbeliever": the story of an ex-hostage of the jihadists in the Sahel
Lolita C. was indicted for "
criminal terrorist association
" and "
removal of a parent from his legal obligations
", then remanded in custody, said the Pnat.
His four children, two of whom were born in Syria, were entrusted to Social Assistance for Children (Ase), he said.
Lolita C., 32, was deported from Turkey on August 10 with her children, under the Cazeneuve protocol.
300 people returned to France
According to
Le Parisien
, the young woman, originally from Rennes and converted to Islam in 2009, had moved to Syria in the summer of 2014 with her two boys.
There, she had religiously married Lakhdar Sebouai, a member of the Strasbourg network who had joined the ranks of the Islamic State group in December 2013. Nicknamed Abu Ali al Faransi and close to members of the commandos of November 13, 2015, he is suspected of having sponsored an attack that was foiled in 2016 in the Paris region.
Read alsoThree jihadists heavily condemned in Paris for planning a "mass killing"
The three men who were to carry out this attack were sentenced in February by the special assize court to terms of 22 to 30 years of criminal imprisonment, with a two-thirds security period. After the fall of the Islamic State group in 2019, Lolita C. was detained in the Kurdish-controlled camp of Aïn Issa, in northern Syria, according to the Parisian. She escaped a few months later, thanks to the chaos caused by the Turkish military offensive in this region. Installed at the Turkish border, she went "
eight months later
" and was expelled to France after "
a year of captivity
", specifies the daily.
Since 2014, nearly 300 people have been sent back to France from Turkey, under the "
Cazeneuve protocol
", a cooperation agreement between the two countries bearing the name of the former Minister of the Interior Bernard Cazeneuve, to organize the return to the territory of the French jihadists who are in the hands of the Turkish authorities. At the end of July, two women were expelled from Turkey with their children and then imprisoned, including Henen Ben Chaieb, another wife of Lakhdar Sebouai.