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June 27, 2020 – 7:30 am – World
Rahma B., a 32-year-old woman who returned from Syria, was sentenced on Friday, June 26, 2020, to five years in prison and a fine of 8,000 euros for her participation in the activities of a terrorist group. The Antwerp Criminal Court also declared his Belgian nationality revoked.
–In November 2019, Rahma B. had managed to escape from a Kurdish prison camp in northern Syria, surrendered to the Turkish authorities before being returned to Belgium, reports Belgian. She arrived at Zaventem airport on November 29. She will be immediately transferred to the infirmary of the Bruges prison. Touched by shrapnel in Syria, it is an obligation for her to always move with crutches, specifies the same source. Her two husbands and three children died in the attack.
In June 2019, the young woman was sentenced by default for participating in the activities of a terrorist group. “I realize that what I went through is my fault. This radical ideology, which has only caused problems, is now out of my mind,” she said in court after returning. in Belgium.
A statement which is far from convincing the public prosecutor who has moreover qualified his profile as “worrying”. According to the federal magistrate, Rahma B., had undergone training in the handling of explosives and was a member of a battalion of combatants of the Islamic State (IS). All things that the defense rejects.
Friday, the verdict falls: the criminal court of Antwerp condemns the young woman to five years in prison and to a fine of 8000 euros for her participation in the activities of a terrorist group. She also lost her Belgian nationality.
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