On the first day of her trial, the “IS midwife” Douha Mounib presents herself in repentance

Six months after the verdict a look back at the

She faces thirty years in prison. Since this Monday, February 27, and for three days, Douha Mounib has been tried before the special assize court of Paris for association of terrorist criminals. This 32-year-old Nîmes resident is accused of having joined the Islamic State twice, in Iraq and Syria, between 2013 and 2017, and of having helped give birth to women there. At the helm, the 30-year-old assumes her responsibilities and her commitments at the time, but now presents herself as repentant.

transcript of hearing, Laura Martel

Without hesitation and in a calm voice, Douha Mounib recognizes ” globally she says, for which she is reproached. And she tells: her radicalization via the Internet, the abandonment of her midwifery studies to join the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria at the age of 23.

A way of ” emancipate “From a toxic family camera, she analyzes today.

She admits a first stay at the end of 2013 with her first husband, quickly cut short because of the bombardments and a difficult pregnancy. Then his numerous attempts to return there via Morocco, Mauritania, Macedonia.

It is finally in the summer of 2015, with her second husband, that she achieves her goals. There, for fifteen months, she gave birth to a dozen women.

At the time, she wrote: It is the man who fights, but it is the woman who educates the future mujahideen. And praises martyrdom. ” But it’s part of my pastshe argues at the helm. I try to move forward. »

I realize I’ve done all of that, but it feels like a lot for my shoulders. The births, she says, were voluntary help.

For the prosecution, however, these multiple attempts show his determination and his role ” highly symbolic “of giving birth to the future” caliphate lion cubs », his participation in the « IS civilizational project “.

The nerve center of this trial is the value given to your word. “Summarizes Me Hazan who, like his client, is betting on openness.

The prosecution is not convinced. Among her arguments: Douha Mouhib’s escape attempt at the end of 2021, for which she will be judged later.

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