The Paris Criminal Court sentenced Wednesday, August 7, Janna C., a radicalized young woman to seven years in prison. She was arrested in 2016 at the age of 18 when she was planning to carry out an attack in France on behalf of the jihadist Islamic State (IS) organization. The court also provided a two-thirds period of security and ordered him to remain in detention. He also ordered a socio-judicial follow-up for five years.

On 12 July, the public prosecutor's office had requested the maximum sentence of ten years of imprisonment, against the young woman now 21 years old. Drunk with the propaganda of the Islamic State organization, Janna C. was arrested on August 10, 2016 in a public garden of Clermont-Ferrand, after having evoked a project of attack in messages and with his family.

This young radicalized had the previous day researched on the Internet "how to make a belt explo" (sic) or the technique of "manufacturing the TATP", a very unstable explosive craftsman prized by jihadists. On Snapchat, she had given "rendezvous in eternal paradise".

"I was in my delirium"

At the time, "I was in my delirium, (...) in my bubble" and committing an attack was "banal", had explained the young woman at the hearing. The investigation began after a call to commit attacks in France by the French propagandist EI Rachid Kassim, relayed on a chain of social network Telegram.

The investigators had spotted Janna C. by going back to its exchanges with the creator of this channel, then minor, pursued in a separate file. She was also tried for inciting the girl to commit an attack and for planning to visit Syria, which she denies. The court has selected a "violent action plan" against Janna C., but no desire to leave for Syria.

Another radicalized woman, 25-year-old Djelika S., who was very close to Janna on the Internet and was appearing at her side, was sentenced to six years in prison. Young woman with an unstable personality, Djelika had self-accused before the police, indicating that Janna and her had planned two knife attacks to "kill as many people as possible", statements made without a lawyer and which have never been corroborated by the investigation, the court said.

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The judges therefore only condemned her for want of departure in Syria. Eight years had been required against him.

With AFP