Woman Who Left France for Syria in 2013 Faces Paris Trial
A 45-year-old mother of five who moved to Syria with her husband in 2013 is scheduled to stand trial in Paris for three days starting Monday. She spent nine years in the country before being repatriated with her children in 2022.
koreaboo.comA French woman identified as Camille F. is scheduled to stand trial in Paris starting Monday for traveling to Syria with her husband and children in 2013. She spent nine years in the country before returning to France with her five children in 2022. Court proceedings are set to last three days before the special criminal court.
Background Before her departure, Camille F. had completed a doctoral thesis on the effects of ionizing radiation in September 2011. She had also earned degrees in applied mathematics, computer science, and public health. She had been employed as an epidemiology engineer at the Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety.
F. met her future husband in a hospital waiting room in the Paris region when she was 19. The couple later converted to Islam and had three children before traveling to Syria. Her husband became radicalized starting in 2011 and imposed stricter religious rules on the family, according to the reporting.
