The mother of one of the Bataclan jihadists was sentenced on Wednesday March 9 in Paris to four years in prison, including 18 months, for having sent money to her son in the Iraqi-Syrian zone before the attacks of November 13.
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Foued Mohamed Aggad, killed in the attack by the police at Bataclan, left for Syria at the end of 2013 at the age of 21 with the so-called Strasbourg network, before returning to France in the fall of 2015 to participate in the attacks of November 13 2015 which left 130 dead in Paris and Saint-Denis, claimed by the Islamic State (IS).
His mother, Fatima Hajji, 54, was convicted of financing terrorism for having, between early 2014 and August 2015, collected and then sent more than 13,000 euros via six money orders to her son and his partner, as well as a parcel. .
The “seriousness of the facts over a long period” underlined
The firm part of the sentence will have to be served under an electronic bracelet, decided the court, which also sentenced the defendant to a fine of 2,500 euros.
Regarding the prison sentence, the 16th correctional chamber went beyond the requisitions of the national anti-terrorist prosecutor's office which had requested, during the trial on March 4, four years in prison, including one year, as well as a fine of 5,000 euros. .
At the hearing, Fatima Hajji claimed not to have "
supported the cause
" but "
supported (his) son, his wife and his future child
", who "
needed
" money "
to survive
".
In its decision, the court, on the contrary, retained the "
seriousness of the facts over a long period
", stressing that the shipments represented a "
considerable sum
" which, "
far from constituting a simple aid, had enabled (his) son to rise in the hierarchy of the terrorist group
".
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For the court, "
in almost daily contact
" with Foued Mohamed Aggad, she was "
perfectly aware
" of bringing her "
aid
" to a "
combatant of a Salafist group
" and, despite the claimed attacks, she did not has not "
interrupted
" its shipments, "
which denotes a form of support for the jihadist cause
".
In defense, the court recalled that the defendant was the mother of the jihadist, that she had no criminal record and that she was the support of her own elderly parents.
The court also sentenced Hajira Belkhir, the partner of Foued Mohamed Aggad, to ten years' imprisonment for terrorist criminal association, issuing an arrest warrant against this woman, presumed dead in Syria.