This archive report was first published on 20 November 2019.
On November 20, 2019, Paris's criminal courts handed down a significant sentence to Anne Clain, 44, and her husband Mohamed Amri, 58, for their attempt to join the Islamic State in Syria between 2015 and 2016.
Clain, a convert to Islam, had left France in August 2015 with her husband, their three children, and his son from a previous relationship, all minors, with the intention of joining her radicalized brothers, Fabien and Jean-Michel Clain, in Syria.
Fabien Clain has been linked to the 2015 Paris attacks, which killed 130 people, and has been accused of being an IS propagandist in Syria.
Presiding judge Isabelle Prevost-Desprez highlighted the couple's determination to reach Syria, stating, "That project failed but not because you wanted it to -- you never gave up on (the idea) of your own volition."
Amri had claimed the couple had not been planning to stay in Syria but merely to visit family, however, the court found them guilty and handed down a ten-year sentence.
The couple's entourage, including their children, burst into tears when sentencing was passed down.
