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Paris Trial Opens for Three Women Linked to Islamic State as Clain Niece Voices Remorse

The case centers on whether years spent inside IS constituted deliberate membership despite later expressions of regret.

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« Je ne regrette pas, car sans Daesh je ne me serais jamais éloignée de ma famille. Sans Daesh, je serais encore dans cette idéologie sectaire »
Christine Allain, à gauche, Jennyfer Clain, à droite. Dessin de Guillaume Brunero.

Overview

  • Jennyfer Clain told the specially composed Paris assize court she was “guilty” and regretted joining IS, as proceedings opened on 15 September and are scheduled to run until 26 September.
  • The defendants are Jennyfer Clain, 34, her mother‑in‑law Christine Allain, 67, and Mayalen Duhart, 42; Clain and Allain are in custody, and Duhart appears free.
  • They are charged with association de malfaiteurs terroriste, carrying up to 30 years in prison, and Clain and Duhart also face counts over exposing their children to a war zone.
  • Investigators say the women remained within jihadist groups for years and received salaries or housing from IS after traveling to Raqqa in 2014, before being intercepted in Turkey in 2019 and repatriated to France with nine children.
  • Husbands Kevin Gonot and Thomas Collange were detained during the IS retreat along the Euphrates, with Gonot’s 2019 death sentence in Iraq later commuted to life imprisonment.