Seven years in prison for a French woman who went to Syria with her three children

The woman, 42, is married three times and had six children, the fifth named "Jihad" (Jihad).

Paris, France .- Claire Khacer, a French woman who lived in Syria in the spring of 2015 with three of her children and who married a jihadist from the Islamic State, was sentenced in Paris to seven years of prison

The woman, 42, is married three times and had six children, the fifth called "Jihad" (Jihad).

In February 2015 the woman left Cannes (South of France) in the direction of Algeria and from there, he traveled to Turkey with three of his children, aged 2, 8 and 16 years old, One of them quadriplegic and in a wheelchair.

From Turkey he arrived in the neighboring country at war in late March 2015 where he joined Raqa Oumar Diaw, a French jihadist whom he met on Facebook. Oumar Diaw was an important official of the Islamic State, suspected of having tortured prisoners and "being involved in the organization of attacks in France," according to the court.

Claire Khacer said that he believed that he was a "little fighter". In Syria they divorced.

After three or four months, she returned to Turkey from where the authorities expelled her in September

She was arrested a year later after giving birth to her sixth son, whose Oumar Diaw. It is believed that the jihadist died in May 2016.

This game, far from being improvised, was "prepared" in order to "participate in the society project" of the IE, according to the 39; accusation.

He claimed he did not have "political" militancy.

Claire Khacer was converted to Islam at the age of 17 and explained that she was suffering from "aggression" of wearing the veil. In 2011, she went to Afghanistan to meet her then husband, an Afghan classified as radicalized.