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She used at least three fighter identities and seduced or convinced about fifteen jihadist apprentices whom she sometimes incited to leave in Syria, sometimes to commit attacks in France. The personality of Inès Madani, now 21 years old, will be at the heart of the trial of the failed attack of the bottles of Notre Dame, which opens Monday in Paris. Alongside the "women's commando" arrested in 2016, she faces life imprisonment for "criminal terrorist criminal conspiracy".
"Very great physical and emotional loneliness"
Post-teenager overweight, out of school, shy, Ines Madani is first embrigaded by a very radicalized neighbor, whom she admires. "It's a complex process," said his lawyer, Laurent Pasquet-Marinacce, referring to a "decisive" meeting. When her neighbor goes to Syria, Inès Madani aims to join her. But she fails and takes refuge in the jihadosphere.
Behind her screen, in a dead end of Sevran, the young woman, just major, then becomes a seducer, domineering and manipulative. She has up to fifteen phone lines to support this virtual double, a so-called fighter returned from Syria. "His friendly environment is non-existent, there is a great physical and emotional loneliness, a very large isolation within his own family," analyzes his advice. "This will allow her to live in the virtual emotional relationships that she can not tie into reality."
"I was in a sect, in a second state"
"And then, there are instructions that will be given to him from a distance, by men in Syria," says Laurent Pasquet-Marinacce. Rachid Kassim, "inspirer" of several attacks committed on French soil and presumed dead in Syria, is one of the defendants of the trial which will last until October 11th. Manipulated or not, it is through this virtual "profile" that the post-teenager will meet Ornella Gilligmann, a thirty-something radicalized with whom she will rally Paris to abandon a 306 containing six bottles of gas before attempting to explode .
"I was in a sect, in a second state," said today Ines Madani. In her expertise, the psychiatrist notes that the young woman has shown a great ability to prolong the subterfuge: some of his interlocutors still find it hard to admit that this jihadist they admired has never existed. "I think it's still quite mysterious for her, the way she let herself be caught in this gear," the defendant's lawyer adds. "Today, that is to say almost three years later, to use the expression of the psychiatrist who examined her, I think she looks at the woman she was at the time with strangeness."