The special assize court of Paris opened on March 2 the trial of Amandine Le Coz, who left for Syria in 2014 and remained five years in the ranks of the Islamic State group.
Originally from Domont in Val d'Oise, this "returner" from the Islamic State (IS) group returned to France in 2019 with three other radicalized women and seven children.
According to CNews, the Frenchwoman had taken advantage of a Turkish offensive in northern Syria to leave the Kurdish camp where she was being held captive.
She had surrendered to the Turkish authorities, and had made known her wish to be repatriated to France.
The Cazeneuve protocol allowed prisoners detained in Turkey to be extradited to be tried in France, unlike those held in Kurdish camps in Syria, supposed to be tried on the spot.
Twice married to jihadists
Maître Marie Dosé, the lawyer for Amandine Le Coz and two other women, had pleaded for their repatriation by affirming that they would have been "
forced to leave
" the camp guarded by the Kurds following the bombardments of the Turkish army in October, then captured on the Turkish-Syrian border by the Turkish army.
The three jihadists were then "
judicialized
", that is to say subject to prosecution by the prosecution with an international arrest warrant.
Married twice to jihadists, Amandine Le Coz gave birth to a boy in Syria.
While the French authorities had offered to repatriate the child, aged a year and a half at the time of her captivity in 2018, the young woman had refused, explaining to the journalists of France 2 who had questioned her: "
S 'he leaves, I leave with him
'.
The trial, whose judgment is expected on Friday, must in particular define its exact role in Syria, its potential abuses and its current degree of radicalism.
Earlier in the week, another "
ghost
", Douha Mounib, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for criminal association of terrorist criminals (AMT).
She had recognized at the hearing “
the whole
” of the facts, assuring that the Islamic State was “
past
”.
