Jihadist Jonathan Geffroy, originally from Toulouse, was sentenced Monday to 18 years in prison by the Special Criminal Court of Paris for a crime of terrorist association to commit a crime. Gefrroy spent between 2015 and 2017 in Syria and Iraq, where he was a member of the Islamic State.
The court has taken the position of the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office, which had questioned the sincerity of the repentance of Geffroy, who traveled to Syria with his wife and his then two-month-old son, reports French television TF1.
Geffroy, has been tried along with his wife, Moroccan Latifa Chadli, also 40, like Geffroy himself. She has been sentenced to five years in prison, three of them suspended on probation. The prosecution had asked for seven years in prison. Chadli has already served two years in prison and will be released.
The court also sentenced Geffroy’s mother, Denise P., who sent more than 18,000 euros to her son while he was in Syria, to three years in prison for financing a terrorist enterprise. The prosecution had asked for ten years in prison.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
