Kevin Guiavarch, 29, one of the first French people to join the jihad in Syria, was sentenced on Friday March 25 in Paris to 14 years in prison with a two-thirds security period.
His legitimate wife, Salma O., 40, was sentenced by the special assize court in Paris to six years in prison, which she will serve at home under an electronic bracelet.
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The National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office (Pnat) had requested respectively against these two accused sentences of 18 and 14 years of imprisonment, with a security period of two thirds.
Kevin Guiavarch and Salma O. were tried for "terrorist criminal association" alongside three "co-wives".
A fifth woman was tried for "terrorist business financing" for having facilitated in 2014 the attempted departure from the area of a 15-year-old minor who should have married Kevin Guiavarch if the project had been successful.
The three “co-wives” of Kevin Guiavarch, Parveen L. (born in 1994), Sally D. (1990) and Sahra R. (1994), received five years in prison with two to four years of probation (accompanied by obligations and prohibitions) depending on the length of their stay in Syria and their recognition of the facts during the investigation and the hearing.
Parveen L. and Sally D. who appeared free under judicial supervision will not go to prison.
The public prosecutor had estimated that the two women could serve the rest of their sentence under an electronic bracelet.
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Eight months pregnant
The only detained “co-wife”, Sahra R., 27, jailed since October 2021 for violating her parole regime, will also be released from prison soon, the court having indicated that she will serve the remainder of her sentence at home under an electronic bracelet.
Sahra R. is currently eight months pregnant.
During the trial, she had appeared several times with a pale and tense face.
The trial had to be suspended Friday after a slight discomfort of the accused who never complained during the hearings.
Camélia M., tried for financing a terrorist enterprise, was acquitted.
The public prosecutor had requested a two-year suspended prison sentence against him.
The five convicts will also be registered in the file of perpetrators of terrorist offenses (Fijait).
