US EditionFrench Jihadist Sentenced to Life in Jail over IS Group Genocide of Iraq's Yazidis
Sabri Essid was sentenced to life for genocide and crimes against humanity in IS attacks on Yazidis between 2014 and 2016, with over 6,400 Yazidis abducted, officials said.
- On Friday, the Paris Assizes Court sentenced French jihadist Sabri Essid to life in jail for involvement in Islamic State atrocities against Iraq's Yazidi minority, marking France's first genocide prosecution in the case.
- Islamic State seized large swathes of Syria and neighbouring Iraq in 2014, regarding Yazidis as heretics and enabling mass abductions and enslavement that United Nations investigators have qualified as genocide.
- Survivors testified Essid bought and repeatedly raped Yazidi women, depriving them of water and food; a 2015 IS propaganda video shows him forcing his 12-year-old stepson to shoot a hostage.
- Presiding judge Marc Sommerer told the court, "Sabri Essid took part in the genocide perpetrated by Islamic State," and lawyers stressed the trial's importance given past fighters believed dead have resurfaced.
- Similar trials span Europe; last month a Swedish court convicted a 52-year-old woman of genocide for enslaving Yazidis. The Kidnapped Yazidi Rescue Office reported 6,416 abducted, with more than half rescued.
38 Articles
38 Articles
He was forced into slavery, sold several times, raped before his daughter's eyes: a Yezidi survivor recounts the indescribable before the French court. At the heart of the trial of jihadist Sabri Essid, sentenced to life for genocide, his testimony exposes, from inside, the mechanics of Daesh.
Judged by default, the French jihadist was sentenced on Friday, March 20 to life imprisonment for genocide against the Yezidi minority. A first in France. The testimonies of the victims weighed in the motivations of the Paris assize court.
Although presumed dead in Syria, this Toulouse native was tried for buying several captives from this Kurdophone community and subjecting them to sexual slavery between 2014 and 2016.
French jihadist sentenced to life in jail over IS group genocide of Iraq's Yazidis
A court in France has sentenced jihadist Sabri Essid for his part in "the genocide perpetrated by the Islamic State group" against Iraq's Yazidi minority, in the first French trial of its kind. Essid…
Radio France Internationale
French jihadist jailed for life for Islamic State crimes against Yazidis
A French jihadist was sentenced to life in jail on Friday for involvement in Islamic State group atrocities against Iraq's Yazidi minority, the first case in France to tackle the issue.
Coverage Details
Bias Distribution
- 40% of the sources lean Left
Factuality
To view factuality data please Upgrade to Premium
