This conviction was made in the mother’s absence, although she had been the subject of an arrest warrant since July 2016, notably for “financing a terrorist enterprise”.
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The mother of the two French children killed in the Gaza Strip, whose death was announced on Tuesday October 31 by the Quai d’Orsay, was convicted in February 2019 for terrorist conspiracy and financing of terrorism, franceinfo learned on Wednesday 1 November from judicial sources.
A conviction made in her absence, while she was the subject of an arrest warrant since July 2016, in particular for “financing a terrorist enterprise”, franceinfo learned on Wednesday from a source close to the case, confirming information from BFMTV.
In 2013, as president of an association, she organized a fundraiser to transport medical equipment and medicine to Syria. “It was subsequently established that these funds, collected for humanitarian reasons, had been routed, during the summer of 2013, to the Idlib region (Syria), for the benefit of jihadists, with the aim of acquiring weapons and ammunitionexplains this source close to the matter.
Born in France and aged 43, she is also suspected of having “provided logistical support, as well as funds, to people close to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad”ends this source.