The defendant sought to send two teenage girls to the self -proclaimed caliphate of the Islamic State so that they marry his brother, Samy Amimour, before he took part in the attacks of November 13, 2015.
mo12345lemonde with AFP
Gray tailor, mid-long brown hair, 29 years old. The sister of Samy Amimour, one of the three attackers of the Bataclan on November 13, 2015, has been tried since Friday, December 2 before the Paris Criminal Court, for having facilitated the departure in Syria of two minors promised to marriage to her brother, at the request of the last. Maya Amimour appears free under judicial supervision for participation in an association of terrorist criminals and minor subtraction – one of the teenagers had not finally joined Syria.
She had been arrested and indicted in March 2015. During the procedure, the young woman had explained that her brother, a fighter from the Islamic State organization party in Syria in September 2013 despite judicial control, had asked in the summer of 2014 to help a minor join him on the spot. She had paid a plane ticket to Turkey, a gateway to Syria, to a first young girl, a 16 -year -old teenager living near Montpellier, whose departure in early August 2014 had been prevented by the police.
“shameful to have the name”
A few months later, in October, Maya Amimour helped her brother organize the departure of another 17 -year -old minor, a radicalized high school student from the Paris region. She had notably received a mandate of 500 euros allowing to finance the trip, bought a train ticket for the girl she had taken to the station, also recovering her phone chip with which she had sent several messages to the mother of the teenager to reassure her. Upon her arrival in Syria, the latter had married Samy Amimour, who a year later would commit the Bataclan massacre with two other jihadists (90 dead).
Heard as a witness in December 2021 at the trial of the attacks of November 13, Maya Amimour had assured ignore “what was going to happen”. As part of her judicial control, she had prohibited from contacting her brother. “Six years later, I still blame him. I’m still ashamed of having the name,” she added to the bar. Maya Amimour had explained that her brother was suddenly interested in her when he was in Syria. She had kept contact and agreed to help him get closer to him.
The widow of Samy Amimour, she is part of a group of 16 women repatriated from Syria in France last July, under investigation and placed in pre -trial detention.