TWO YOUNG FRENCH WOMEN SENTENCED TO PRISON ON TERROR CHARGES
A young woman has been
found guilty of planning a terrorist attack on French soil in 2016. Her
accomplice, another young woman, has been found guilty of planning to travel to
Syria to join the Islamic State group.
The Paris Criminal
Court sentenced a radicalised young woman – identified only as Janna C. – to
seven years in prison on Wednesday. She was arrested in 2016, suspected of
planning to carry out an attack in France on behalf of the jihadist Islamic
State (IS) group.
Her lawyer, Léa
Dordilly, argued that the punishment was too severe.
"We have been
given a sentence of seven years in prison, which is extremely severe given the
age of this girl, who was 18 when she started these activities online,"
Dordilly told FRANCE 24 after the sentencing. "And it was only for such a
short period, two months – July and August, 2016 – during which she was having
these conversations on social media."
On July 12, the
prosecutor’s office had requested the maximum penalty of 10 years’ imprisonment
for Janna C., who is now 21. She was arrested on August 10, 2016, in a public
garden in Clermont-Ferrand after having mentioned plans for an attack in online
messages and with her family.
She had searched on
the Internet for "how to make an explosive belt" and also the
technique for making TATP, a highly unstable improvised explosive that is
prized by jihadists. On Snapchat she had written about her desire to go to
paradise, taking "infidels" with her.
The investigation
began after a call for attacks in France by the IS group's French propagandist
Rachid Kassim, relayed on a channel of the encrypted social network Telegram.
The investigators had
identified Janna C. by tracing her exchanges on the channel.
Another radicalised
woman known only as Djelika S., who was closely connected to Janna on the
internet and who appeared in court alongside her, was sentenced to six years on
Wednesday.
Djelika incriminated
herself to police by saying that she and Janna had planned two knife attacks to
"kill as many people as possible". However, the court found that
those statements were made without the presence of a lawyer and were never
corroborated by the investigation.
The judges therefore
convicted her only for wanting to travel to Syria to join the IS group.
Sumber: France24 – 07
August 2019
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