A family “Cursed”. Thus in November 2019, Me Martin Desrues, who intervenes in many files related to «revenants» Iraqi-Syrian zone, had qualified the «clan» Clain. Two of the brothers, Jean-Michel and Fabien, now presumed dead, are infamous for their role as “French voices of the Islamic State”. The general public is less familiar with their older sister, Anne Diana, who is appearing on Monday June 29 and Tuesday June 30 before the Paris Court of Appeal for trying to reach Syria with husband and children.
In August 2015, the forties left France with her religious husband Mohamed Mongi Amri and her four minor children. After passing through Monaco, Italy and Greece, they are driven back to the Turkish border. Hidden in Bulgaria for several months, they eventually managed to enter Turkey, but were arrested on July 1, 2016 at the Turkish-Syrian border. They were deported to France on September 20, 2016.
The four children are placed, while Anne Diana Clain and Mohamed Mongi Amri are indicted for “terrorist criminal association” and placed in pre-trial detention. On November 20 and 21, 2019, their trial will be held before the 16th Chamber of the Paris Criminal Court, at the Batignolles courthouse. The forties pleads the “naivete”, assuring that she imagined in Syria “A life like here”. The 50-something man said that the family’s stay in Syria was only temporary.
“A project directly linked to IS”
Denouncing a project “Well thought out, clandestine, in direct connection with the Islamic State, which wanted to be final and in which four children were drawn”, the prosecutor requires ten years in prison against the spouses. The native of La Réunion was finally sentenced to nine years in prison, with a two-thirds security period. The Tunisian, behind the conversion of the entire Clain family, was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment with a two-thirds security period.
The couple appealed and were therefore tried again on Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 June. This time, the hearing takes place at the Île de la Cité courthouse, in front of room 8-1 of the court of appeal. Anne Diana Clain is again defended by Me Xavier Nogueras and Me Martin Desrues. Mother “Will re-explain his version of the facts”, the same as at first instance, declares Me Desrues. Beyond this appeal trial and the sentence to be pronounced, “The most important thing for Anne Diana Clain is to be able to one day find her children and lead a normal life”, emphasizes his advice.
For his part, Mohamed Mongi Amri always has as lawyer Me Louise Dumont Saint Priest. “At first instance, my client was sentenced to a very severe penalty, to which was added a ban on French territory. He lived more than forty years in France, his children are French. The day he gets out of prison, he would like the opportunity to stay here. “, she says. Before recalling, referring to the shadow hanging over this file: “Mohamed Mongi Amri is not Fabien Clain!”
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