Douha Mounib, a 32 -year -old young mother, was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Wednesday for going to Syria. His trial was marked by his intelligence and his great determination, illustrated by his attempted escape from the penitentiary center of Fresnes in November 2021.
by soren seelow
After the two so-called “historical” trials of the attacks of November 13, 2015 in Paris and Saint-Denis and July 14, 2016 in Nice, the anti-terrorist justice has been rebuilding, since the beginning of the year, the chapter of “Revenants” , these jihadist women back from the Iraqi-Syrian war area. The phenomenon is far from being marginal: according to the accounts of the Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI), women represent a third of the 1,426 jihadists from France to join the self -proclaimed “caliphate”.
During the first waves of returns, and until 2016, the “returnings” had benefited from a bias of the judicial genre presenting them as victims under control. Times have changed: several projects of fomented by women have been there. Over the files, the anti -terrorist justice must have noted that many women who have left in Syria were just as much, and sometimes more, radicalized as their traveling companion.
With her dense gaze, his mastered speech, her rigorous reasoning, even “rigorist”, she agrees, Douha Mounib is happy to be part of this category. This 32 -year -old mother from the south of France was sentenced on Wednesday 1 er , by the Assize Court specially composed of Paris, at twelve years in prison, accompanied by a two-thirds surety, for going twice to the Iraqi-Syrian zone between 2013 and 2017. The National Anti-terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT) had requested fourteen, a “significant quantum”, recognized the lawyer, motivated by the “willingness to conceal” the accused and his “extreme determination”.
lightning radicalization
If this young woman with a slender silhouette and a beautiful fine face illuminated these three days of trial by the clarity of her words, her frank verb, her certain intelligence and her capacity for introspection, she has, in fact, Especially marked the spirits by its flawless determination. No man embraced her, she insisted: Douha Mounib decided alone to go to Syria twice, and it was she who convinced her two successive husbands to follow him.
Excellent student, born of a Moroccan father and a French mother of Catholic culture, the young woman followed medicine studies in Montpellier after having won her scientific bac with good mention. Too fair to become a doctor, her notes still allowed her to be classified for a midwife training, which she followed for three years, until this day at the end of 2012 when her life changed.
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