The Paris Special Assize Court condemned the Toulousain on Monday, who had joined the terrorist organization in Syria from 2015 to 2017. She followed the requisitions of the national anti -terrorist prosecution, which had questioned the sincerity of the repentance of Mr. Geffroy, calling him “opportunistic”.
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Is Jonathan Geffroy truly a repentant jihadist or a simple “opportunistic”? The Paris Special Assize Court decided in favor of the second option, Monday, January 23, by condemning the former Islamic State Organization (IS) to eighteen years of imprisonment accompanied by a period two -thirds security for “Association of terrorist criminals (AMT)”.
Chaired by Christophe Petiteau, she followed the requisitions of the national anti -terrorist prosecution (PNAT) to the letter which had questioned the sincerity of the repentance of this Toulouse converted to Islam, aged 40, who had joined the Syria in February 2015 with his wife and their son then two months old.
40 -year -old Moroccan citizen, Mr. Geffroy’s wife was tried on Monday by his side for AMT. Jonathan Geffroy and Latifa Chadli brought together thirty years’ imprisonment. The Court was more lenient towards her, sentenced her to five years in prison, including three with probationary stay, against the seven required at first by the prosecution, accompanied by a two -thirds security period. Having already served two years of pre-trial detention, M Me Chadli, who appeared free, will not return to prison.
The mother of Jonathan Geffroy, Denise P., tried for “terrorist business funding” after sending her son more than 18,000 euros when he was in the Irako-Syrian zone, was, for his part, Sentenced to three years in suspended prison sentence, while it faces ten.
“an opportunist who wanted to live a life as a pasha”
Pursued for “Association of terrorist criminals” and “Abandonment of minor” – for having taken his son to a war zone -, Jonathan Geffroy had put forward during his trial his collaboration with the French authorities, in November 2016 , while he was still in Raqqa, one of the fiefs of IS.
After his escape from Syria and his arrest by the Free Syrian Army (ASL) in February 2017, then his delivery to the French authorities in September of the same year, he continues to speak to investigators, without convincing the sincerity of its repentance.
Investigators of the Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI) who testified at the helm as well as the lawyer general of the PNAT thus minimized the importance of the information given by Jonathan Geffroy to the authorities, among which the project of The Islamist organization of sending children-soldiers to Europe to commit suicide operations.
“Jonathan Geffroy is an opportunist who wanted to live a life as a pacha” in the Iraqi-Syrian zone, said the lawyer general in his requisitions. If he decided to leave the Islamic State in 2017, it was “because the situation in the area had become very difficult,” she insisted.
During his interrogation last Friday, the ex-Djihadist had explained without pretense his journey within IS. “When I arrive in Syria, I am proud to be there,” he admitted, before adding: “I had put the Islamic State on a pedestal because they had conquered many territories. This dimension of power fueled me. I am completely under their grip at this period. Proud. Proud to have weapons. I feel good, I meet people from the whole world who think like me. I am in A total utopia. “