A Parisian lawyer, including a supporter of French jihadists who have joined the Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq and Syria, was detained on suspicion of "terrorist financing" on Tuesday, AFP learned. source close to the folder. The lawyer is suspected by the investigators of the Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI) to have paid money to an intermediary supposed to exfiltrate from Iraq Maximilien Thibaut, a jihadist from the Paris region, said this source , confirming information from the Parisian .
The husband of Melina Boughedir. According to the daily, Maximilien Thibaut, 33, had gone to join IS in 2015 and is now missing. He is the husband of Mélina Boughedir. This young Frenchwoman was sentenced in June 2018 to life imprisonment in Baghdad for joining IS, a sentence that equates to 20 years of imprisonment under Iraqi law. She had escaped the death penalty but had become the second French sentenced to life in Iraq, less than two months after Djamila Boutoutaou. Both had pleaded to have been duped by their husbands, now untraceable.