Rehabilitation Program for French Couple Returning from Libya After Detention

In France, a French Moroccan was sentenced to 17 years in prison for joining ISIS in Libya in 2016, and his partner was sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted of participating in a criminal terrorist organization. prison.

The accused (42 years old) is from Auxerre (central France) and resides in Louvreville, near Maubeuge (north), and has been on trial since Monday on charges of association with a terrorist criminal organization due to several attempts to join a recruiting network and areas under the organization’s control between 2013 and 2017.

His partner, Donia Bentefret (41), under judicial surveillance since June 2022, was also tried. The court sentenced her to five years’ imprisonment, suspended two years and forced her to undergo socio-judicial follow-up for eight years, and to continue the procedures of the “Program of Individual Support and Social Rehabilitation” to fight extremism in an open environment.