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Iraqi court sentences French woman to life in jail over Daesh membership
[PRESSTV] An Iraqi court has sentenced a French woman to life in prison for her suspected membership in the ISIS Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...terrorist group, some six months after Baghdad announced that the terror outfit had lost all of its urban bastions in the Arab country. Melina Boughedir, a mother of four, on Sunday told the judge in French that she was "innocent" and that her husband, who is now believed to be killed in anti-terror operations, first "duped" her and then "threatened" her to take away the children from her unless she followed him to the Arab country, where he planned joining ISIS. "I am opposed to the ideology" of ISIS and "condemn the actions of my husband," the 27-year-old French citizen said in defense while she wore a black dress and a black headscarf. Boughedir arrived in the courtroom as she was carrying her youngest daughter in her arms. Her three other children are now in La Belle France. Arrested in the summer of 2017 in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the former de facto capital of ISIS, the French woman was initially sentenced to seven months in prison by a court in February for "illegal" entry into Iraq and was set to be deported to her home country. However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... another court ordered her re-trial under Iraq’s anti-terrorist law and on Sunday she was found guilty of being a member of ISIS. On Thursday, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said that Boughedir was a "ISIS terrorist who fought against Iraq" and that she should be tried on Iraqi soil. Her defense team, however, tried to persuade Iraqi authorities to allow her to return to La Belle France and face a court there, but all to no avail, prompting her lawyers to denounce Le Drian and French authorities over "pressure on the Iraqi judicial system" and "unacceptable interference." Boughedir’s defense team believed that the French government, through putting pressure on Baghdad, prevents the return of detained hard boyz to La Belle France. Posted by: Fred 2018-06-04 |
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