France trial opens for suspected IS group militants accused of kidnapping journalists in Syria

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Journalists and former hostages Edouard Elias and Didier Francois, captured in June 2013, on Wednesday at the proceedings of Mehdi Nemmouche and four jihadists.

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Suspected IS militants on trial for kidnapping French journalists

The abductees testifying at the trial insisted they were sure in their identification of those who kidnapped them.The trial of five men suspected of kidnapping and torturing four French journalists in Syria in 2013 began in Paris on Monday.

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The trial of the alleged jailers of the Islamic State group opened on Monday, 17 February before the Court of Assizes specially composed of Paris. Five men are accused of being involved in the kidnapping, in Syria, of Western hostages in 2013-2014. Only three are present, including Mehdi Nemmouche, already sentenced to life imprisonment for the attack on the Jewish museum in Brussels in May 2014. When questioned about their position, all three d…

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The trial of Mehdi Nemmouche and four other jihadists, accused of having detained French journalists in the Islamic State group in Syria in 2013, opened on Monday 17 February in Paris. The French jihadist denies any involvement.

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France tries five suspected IS jihadists for abducting four reporters in Syria

Mehdi Nemmouche is among five men accused of holding four French journalists hostage at a trial that started in Paris on Monday. Nemmouche is already in prison after a Belgian court jailed him for life in 2019 for killing four people at a Jewish museum in May 2014.

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France tries five for holding reporters hostage in Syria

Five men went on trial in France on Monday charged with holding four French journalists hostage for the Islamic State group in war-torn Syria more than a decade ago. IS grew to prominence in 2013 during the chaos that followed the outbreak of the Syrian civil war, slowly gaining ground before declaring a caliphate in large parts of Syria and neighbouring Iraq. The militants abducted a number of foreign journalists and aid workers before US-backe…