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5 jihadists discovered responsible of holding French journalists hostage

By Editorial Board Published March 21, 2025 6 Min Read
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5 jihadists discovered responsible of holding French journalists hostage

5 jihadists have been discovered responsible of holding French journalists captive in Syria for the fear group Islamic State.

One of many responsible, Mehdi Nemmouche, 39, has been described by the prosecution as “one of the most perverse and cruel jihadists of the past 10 years” with a “total absence of empathy and remorse.”

“Yes, I was a terrorist, and I will never apologise for it,” Nemmouche informed the court docket in France hours earlier than the decision was due, whereas denying he held the boys captive.

“I don’t regret a day, an hour, or an act,” he added.

Nemmouche was sentenced to life in jail, and can serve a minimal of twenty-two years behind bars. Abdelmalek Tanem was given 22 years and Kais Al Abdullah was sentenced to twenty years.

In the meantime, Oussama Atar and Salim Benghalem, who’re each known as integral figures within the Islamic State’s operations and believed to be useless have been sentenced to life in absentia.

The trial in Paris heard that journalists Didier Francois, Edouard Elias, Nicolas Henin, and Pierre Torres have been terrorised throughout their 10 months in captivity between June 2013 and April 2014.

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Launched French hostage Didier Francois, left, is welcomed by his household in 2014. File pic: AP

The 4 spoke of relentless bodily and psychological torture by the hands of ISIS.

Throughout their imprisonment, they have been pressured to observe the executions of different captives and endure beatings whereas surrounded by the screams of fellow detainees.

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‘They did loads of mock executions’

Nicolas Henin was snatched within the Syrian metropolis of Raqqa with photographer Pierre Torres in 2013.

Throughout his time in captivity, he met American journalist James Foley and British assist employee David Haines, each of whom have been later murdered by the infamous British ISIS militants “the Beatles”.

“We were a total of 24. Nineteen men held in one cell and five women in another one…and the plan was to start everything with an execution,” he says.

In this photo made from video, two of the four French journalists who went missing in Syria last summer, Didier Francois, foreground, and Edouard Elias, right, leave a local hospital after a medical check, in Akcakale, Turkey, Saturday, April 19, 2014. Four French journalists who went missing in Syria last summer were found blindfolded and cuffed in Turkey's southeast Sanliurfa province late Friday, according to a private Turkish news agency. Dogan News Agency (DHA) said Edouard Elias, Didier Fr

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Launched hostages Didier Francois, left, and Edouard Elias, proper, depart an area hospital after a medical check-up in 2014. File pic: AP

He remembers the primary individual executed on the day they arrived was a Russian man, however the murders would proceed.

At occasions, their captors additionally carried out mock executions, dragging their terrified prisoners out for faux beheadings or leaving them within the boiling solar for hours throughout mock crucifixions.

“All our captors treated us badly. It is not only about beatings or torture; to keep someone captured in the dark sometimes blindfolded is enough,” Mr Henin stated.

All through the trial, Nemmouche has all the time denied being their jailer, however the 4 former hostages recognised him.

Edouard Elias stated he remembers him tormenting them for hours with fixed chatter and singing French songs.

FILE - In this Sunday, April 20, 2014 file photo, French President Francois Hollande, third from left, speaks upon arrivals of released French hostages, from left, Didier Francois, Edouard Elias, Nicolas Henin and Pierre Torres, at the Villacoublay military airbase, outside Paris. The Islamic State group has released several hostages, reportedly in exchange for ransom money. There has been no official confirmation from any of the countries involved. Francois, Elias, Henin, and Torres were releas

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Former president of France, Francois Hollande, speaks because the launched French hostages arrive house in 2014. File pic: AP

Nicolas Henin will always remember his face or his method.

“[He’s] sadistic, narcissistic, and I would say ‘gamer’ because for him nothing is serious. Everything is a game. He wants to win everything…he plays with the court,” he stated.

A court sketch shows the lawyers (bottom) of defendants (top) accused of having held French journalists hostage in Syria in 2013. Pic: Benoit Peyrucq/AFP/Getty

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A court docket sketch reveals the legal professionals (backside) and the defendants (prime). Pic: Benoit Peyrucq/AFP/Getty

Nemmouche is already serving a life sentence for the deadly assault on the Jewish Museum in Brussels in Could 2014.

He carried out the killings for ISIS a couple of weeks after the French journalists have been launched.

“This man, who fancies himself intelligent, is devoid of any human sentiment,” Prosecutor Benjamin Chambre stated, describing him as a “real sociopath”.

It is greater than a decade because the journalists spent months witnessing and enduring the darkest and cruellest acts of humanity.

Nicolas Henin waits to hear the sentencing of the men who held him hostage in Syria

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Nicolas Henin waits to listen to the sentencing of the boys who held him hostage in Syria

Requested how he managed to outlive, Nicolas Henin paid tribute to his fellow hostages David Haines and James Foley who he says supported him mentally whereas he was detained.

Forward of the decision, he known as for sentences that mirrored the gravity of the crimes inflicted on them.

And what of the boys who seemingly take pleasure in inflicting such ache and struggling – are they evil?

That is what they want us to consider, he explains.

“It’s part of the game of terrorists to terrorise people. They need us to believe that they are not human.

“We now have to search for the humanity nonetheless in them to forestall ourselves being completely petrified by concern going through them,” Mr Henin adds, refusing to be cowed.

“I stop myself from feeling any hatred towards them as a lot as any concern,” he says.

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