The Morbihan departmental council, which is responsible for the three children, filed a complaint against the former recruiter for the Islamic State terrorist group.
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The Morbihan departmental council, guardian of the three minor children of jihadist Emilie König currently incarcerated in France, filed a complaint against the latter for psychological and physical violence denounced by her children, repatriated in 2021. According to the department’s lawyer, the elder “confided to his social worker that his mother taught him to cut off heads and throw grenades”.
Now aged 7 and 9, Emilie König’s children are under the supervision of the Morbihan departmental council and child welfare (ASE). They suffer from anxiety disorders and have confided in various psychologists, psychiatrists and educators, revealed The Parisian.
Emilie König, aged 39 and now incarcerated in Rennes, left for Syria in 2012. She is accused of having played the role of recruiter for the terrorist organization Islamic State. Captured by Kurdish forces in 2017, this daughter of a gendarme from Lorient was repatriated to France in July 2022 and indicted for criminal terrorist association.
Emilie König gave birth to three children during her stay in Syria, a boy now aged 9 and twin girls aged 7. “As soon as they arrived on French territory, the children provided information about their traumatic history” to the specialists who took care of them, underlines the complaint, transmitted on September 19 to the Paris prosecutor’s office and to the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat), which AFP was able to consult.
As early as May 2023, the Morbihan Departmental Council had made a report to the courts on thes “physical and psychological violence” inflicted by their mother as well as “frightening scenes” which they would have attended.