Islamist madmen have been worrying European anti-terrorism for years.
In a remarkable transnational study (1) (Germany, Belgium, France, Netherlands) published on January 31, the International Center for Counterterrorism (ICCT, based in The Hague) is interested in these “jihadist women facing justice” as well as the evolution of the treatment reserved for them.
In just over 200 pages, the five authors (2) therefore focus on what they call “
violent extremist offenders affiliated with jihad
”.
Their work is based on interviews with 69 anti-terrorism experts and policy makers and on the analysis of court decisions concerning 277 female jihadists.
The study does not fail to remind us first of all that the participation of women in terrorist activities (Islamist or otherwise) is not new.
We remember, for example, the Belgian Muriel Degauque, who died in a suicide bomber in Iraq in 2005. But the number and visibility…
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