The issues of ISIS returning from Syria continue to haunt Europe, which has suffered from their scourge, and is striving to stave off their mucus.
From France to Germany, ongoing trials of ISIS aim to prevent their dangers, stop their terrorist plans, and integrate those proven not to be involved in terrorism.
The trial of a Frenchman and his wife
Before the Special Criminal Court in Paris, the trial of a French terrorist who had joined ISIS in Syria in February 2015 began with his Moroccan wife and their two-month-old child, at the time, on Monday.
Terrorist Jonathan Jeffrey, who was arrested 6 years ago and turned into a valuable source of information for the French authorities, and his 40-year-old wife, Latifa Shadley, are in court on charges of “participating in a terrorist criminal organization”.
Jeffrey was caught following he himself contacted the French domestic intelligence services in November 2016, while he was trying to flee Syria with his wife and their son.
“cubs of the caliphate”
After his extradition to France in September 2017, Jeffrey revealed to investigators that ISIS was planning to send child soldiers – “cubs of the caliphate” – to Europe “to carry out suicide operations there”.
According to Jeffrey, the organization was also planning to “spread terror in the French countryside” and “target a French nuclear power plant.” He also provided the names of dozens of French people who joined the terrorist organization.
Jeffrey, the only accused under arrest, while his wife and mother are still divorced under judicial supervision, hails from Toulouse (south), had gone to Syria and joined the ranks of ISIS in February 2015 with his wife, Latifa Chadli, and their first child, who was two months old at the time. Only, and he is a civil party in the trial of his parents by an association.
The couple is also being tried for abandoning their family because they went to Syria in February 2015 when their first child was only two months old. They also had a second child who was born in Turkey in June 2017, 4 months following they were arrested while trying to flee Syria.
Denise B., Jeffrey’s 59-year-old mother, is appearing before the court, accused of “financing a terrorist organization by sending thousands of euros to her son while he was in Syria,” but she said before the court: “I was helping my son, not the terrorist.”
Terrorist record in Syria and Iraq
In Syria, Jonathan Jeffrey served in the ranks of the Anwar al-Awlaki battalion affiliated with ISIS, which included a few dozen Frenchmen, including the brothers Jean-Michel and Fabien Klein, who were propaganda officials in the terrorist organization, and they also adopted the attacks of November 13, 2015 in France. .
In Iraq, Jeffrey fought within the ranks of the organization in Ramadi within the “Tariq bin Ziyad” battalion that was established by Abd al-Ilah Hamish (one of the French terrorists in the organization known as Abu Suleiman al-Fransi), from whose ranks the attackers of the Bataclan came.
The trial is expected to continue until January 23, and Jeffrey and his wife face 30 years of criminal imprisonment, while his mother faces 10 years in prison.
ISIS trial in Germany
And from France to Germany, which is likely to start soon, the trial of a young man who was taken by his mother to Syria to join the terrorist organization ISIS when he was 11 years old.
The Federal Prosecutor’s Office has filed charges once morest the young man, who has been in pretrial detention since last October, at the Regional High Court in Hamburg, northern Germany, with charges of “belonging to ISIS, grievous bodily harm and coercion.”
Investigators assumed that the accused had been living with ISIS since 2013, and worked with them as an ISIS operative at a later time.
