The widow of one of the Bataclan attackers was repatriated to France in July

The widow of Samy Amimour, one of the three Bataclan attackers in November 2015, Kahina El H., is one of the sixteen women repatriated from Syria to France in July, franceinfo learned from sources familiar with the matter on Wednesday, confirming information from RMC. All these women had been indicted in Paris in July and placed in pre-trial detention.

Kahina El H., reportedly born in January 1997, left for Syria in October 2014, two months before the attacks in Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher and one year before those of 13-November. According to the final order of March 2020 referring the protagonists of these attacks to the special assize court, she very quickly married Samy Amimour once in Syria.

In December 2014, Kahina El H. sent a video to Samy Amimour’s sister in which she “threatened to come to France to slaughter the disbelievers”, according to the order. Later, she appeared in a photo with a Kalashnikov. During 2015, she also threatened to kill one of her former friends who had stopped wearing the veil.

Also according to this order, Kahina El H. had sent an email to an acquaintance three days after the November 2015 attacks to inform him that her husband was Samy Amimour. In an email dated November 18, 2015, she wrote to him: “I was aware from the start and I encouraged my husband to leave to terrorize the French people. (…) I envy my husband so much, I would have liked to be with him so much to [faire exploser] too ! (…) I am so proud of my husband and to praise his merit.

At the beginning of July, France brought back 35 minors and 16 mothers, the first massive repatriation since the fall in 2019 of the self-proclaimed caliphate of the Islamic State group, while so far, France favored “case by case” and had only repatriated children.