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https://www.euronews.com/2022/03/04...oes-on-trial-in-paris-for-financing-terrorism
The mother of one of the 2015 Bataclan concert hall attackers has gone on trial in Paris, accused of “financing terrorism”.
Fatima Hajji is accused of sending more than €13,000 to her son and his partner while they were in Iraq and Syria, between 2014 and 2015.
Hajji’s son — Foued Mohamed Aggad — was one of three suicide bombers who stormed the Paris theatre during the November 2015 terror attacks.
The money had been sent to him while he was “expressing his participation in combat and his desire to die as a martyr”, prosecutors say.
Aggad’s partner Hajira Belkhir is also being tried in absentia for “terrorist criminal association”. She is presumed dead….
“In his exchanges with his mother, he indicated that, if he were to return to France, it would only be to commit an attack,” investigators said.
Six of Aggad’s relatives — including his mother and aunt — were arrested in June as part of a national investigation into “financing terrorism”. Only Hajji was charged with any offence….