Edith Bouvier and Céline Martelet collected the testimony of one of these women (from 500 to 700) having made the choice to join the terrorist organization in Syria.
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It is first a voice – sweet – and listening to this documentary of Arte Radio, a shock – difficult to qualify. It is also the work of two specialist journalists from the Middle East: Edith Bouvier and Céline Martelet, an inquiry of a survey of the French state (a perfume of jihad, fold, 2018).
Episode 1: “My name is Nessrine, I’m 29 years old and two children of 4 and 5 years old. I spent five years in Syria in the territory of Daesh. I’m on parole and I’m waiting for the opening of my trial. “
From the outset, Nessrine (the first names have been changed for security reasons) entrusts that she does not consider himself a victim. That she is a party mainly to escape the moderately golden prison where her parents and brothers hellowed her little by little, supervising his attendance. “At the college, I was called the prisoner.” His brothers invoicing him to cover more, soon will come abuse and blows. When, in early December 2013, it is made to “meet” (through a Facebook account that connects women in France with jihadists) his future husband, Nessrine is determined to leave.
As soon as he arrived in Syria (episode 2), his husband confiscates his phone. The sequestration, the threat and the beats. When he died in combat, Nessrine is quickly remarried. Without being able to pronounce the word love, she confesses the affection she will have for the one who, became the father of his two children, tries, before being killed, to bring her out of Rakka, become Syrian capital of the organization Islamic state.
Eight years of investment
In the last episode, she tells her flight, her deportation to France, on March 12, 2019, from Turkey, his incarceration then, in July 2020, this cafe taken on the terrace and this “feeling of vertigo to see the World Great Because for seven years I had not seen the horizon, “she says. Industices for “Association of Croplers for a terrorist company”, Nessrine is today under judicial control while waiting for his trial and a future that she hopes to build for her and her children.
This is for history, both singular, banal, of Nessrine and, through it, of these women (between 500 and 700) which, from 2013, have chosen to join Syria or the ‘Iraq to live in the heart of a terrorist organization. This testimony is the fruit, as will end up the entrusting Céline Martelet, several years of investment on this topic: “almost eight years ago, it’s a lot.” It’s because she heard about their work That Nessrine will find the two journalists and entrusts them his story for, she will tell them, “that this is useful.” “A risk”, for her and her children, as she wanted to point out Céline Martelet.
Nessrine has an interesting profile because she spent five and a half years “on zone. That she can tell what she saw – including the cries of joy and horn and the distribution of candies as a result of the attacks that bloody France on November 13, 2015. That it can come back to the reasons for its departure, common to many women, as Edith Bouvier points out: “The family, confinement, blows and sexual abuse.” And since it is here to give to hear, not excuse or Judging, the signed realization Charlie Marcelet is, as the work done, remarkable sobriety.