One dreamed of leaving for Syria, the other glorified Nazism, and both spoke online with a gun-obsessed woman who wanted to blow up a church.
The three have been appearing since Tuesday February 20 before the Paris children's court for separate projects of violent actions between jihadism and neo-Nazism.
The three young people, coming from Hérault, Paris or Haut-Rhin, were 16-17 years old at the time of the events, and were arrested in 2021. At the heart of this atypical trio, a young girl with multiple nicknames and morbid fascination with violence, lonely CAP student who has been out of school since she was 16.
Coming from a family of five children who live in precarious conditions, she remains isolated in her room, discussing the manufacture of TATP explosives or videos of executions with followers of Islamist ideology or ultra-right supremacists. .
In police custody, she admits to having
“thought a little”
about targeting a church in Béziers, and also to having subscribed to the encrypted Telegram channel 19HH administered by a certain
“Abdellatif924”
, who spoke to her about marriage and a departure for Afghanistan, the Maldives or Turkey.
Encrypted messaging
Behind this nickname, a scholarship student who was then enrolled in a preparatory class in a prestigious high school in the capital and was aiming for HEC for a while before preferring hijra (
“departure”
) to a land of Islam and videos on the Koran.
The teenager, converted around the age of 14, is being tried for having considered plans to leave for the Iraqi-Syrian zone to join terrorist organizations, Omar Diaby's group affiliated with al-Qaeda in particular, as well as for the dissemination of jihadist propaganda.
The third, an MMA and Adolphe Hitler fan described as provocative by those close to him, is on trial for participation in violent action plans, in particular by searching for weapons and physical training.
He mentioned in an encrypted message the plan for an attack on his school which he was considering with another young man, who had just reached the age of majority.
The latter will be tried in March before the criminal court, just like the young woman tried this week before the children's court and who will appear a second time for facts that occurred after she reached the age of majority.
The trial in children's court, behind closed doors, is scheduled until Friday.