Amandine Le Coz has not always found the words, but she cried a lot during the two days that her trial lasted. This 32-year-old Frenchwoman converted to “strong psychoaffective immaturity” and at “low intellectual level”according to her psychiatric expertise, was sentenced on Friday March 3 to ten years in prison for joining the ranks of the Islamic State (IS) organization between 2014 and 2018. She then spent a year and a half with her young son in Kurdish detention camps before being deported to France.
For two days, the specially composed Assize Court of Paris explored the springs of his radicalization, his evolution since his return, but also the waking nightmare that was his life on the territory of the “caliphate”.
Guilty of terrorist criminal association, Amandine Le Coz was herself the victim of her choices, of the brutality of her jihadist husband who beat her “to the blood”the bombardment of her building in Raqqa in which she was injured, and the ordeal of the Kurdish camps, haunted by violence, famine and death.
La conversion
Amandine Le Coz repeated it throughout her trial: she finds herself ” beast “. From the glass box, she also says her ” shame “ that his story finds its way into the newspapers. Her fragility goes back a long way, to the great difficulties she encountered in primary school, then to her schooling in a specialized “Segpa” class (Adapted General and Professional Education Section) from which she had ” shame “, already, being child. Growing up, she sought herself, she was “gothic”, then she partied, drank a lot, took drugs too. And then one day, at the age of 23, she decided to convert and wear the veil.
“I have no confidence in myself at all, I’m afraid of stares. I felt stupidshe explains. When I knew Islam, I saw an equal community, that’s what I liked. I found a sense of belonging there. There is no need to know a text by heart to convert, no need to be intelligent to be a Muslim. In catechism, I understood nothing, and in the Jewish religion, it takes seven years to convert…”
The young woman had never read the Koran when she converted to a mosque. “It works on the imaginary collageexplains the psychologist who assessed her. She went from the “bimbo look” to the “veiled woman look”, I say it that way because it doesn’t have more consistency than that. It is a dressing. » And “dressing” which is not going to please his parents at all.
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