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Female jihadists accused of criminal conspiracy face trial in Paris

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Three French women including a niece of notorious jihadist propagandists went on trial on Monday, accused of traveling to the Middle East to join the Islamic State group and taking their eight children with them.

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  • Three women from the same family are on trial in Paris for alleged ties to the Islamic State group. 3s
  • They left France between 2014 and 2017 to live in Syria under Islamic State rule. 17s
  • Pretrial judges state the women knowingly joined and remained with the group. 39s
  • After the fall of Raqqa, they hid in refugee camps before being arrested and extradited. 51s
  • They face charges of association with terrorists, and two are also charged with abandoning their children by taking them to a war zone. 1m 7s
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