Posted on 10/06/2017 11:27:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A Frenchwoman nicknamed “Mama Jihad”, who traveled to Syria three times to support her jihadist son was handed a 10-year jail sentence on Friday in the latest case against parents of ISIS fighters. Christine Rivière, 51, was convicted of being part of a terrorist organization.
She was given the maximum sentence for her “unfailing commitment” to jihad and for helping a number of young women travel to Syria as part of her attempts to find a bride for her son Tyler Vilus, with whom she was described as having an “inseparable relationship”.
Vilus traveled to Syria to fight alongside the Islamic State group. He is believed to have been close to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, one of the masterminds of the Paris terror attacks.
Rivière, who has been nicknamed “Mama Jihad” in the French press, visited him three times in 2013 and 2014. […]
She was accused of helping him financially but also of sharing his fanatical ideas and was found to have shared jihadist propaganda online, including videos of decapitations. …
(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.fr ...
I am surprised she looks as good as she does.
The photo is of a different women in the same trouble, Nathalie Haddadi, age 43.
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