The Morbihan departmental council, guardian of Émilie König’s three minor children, filed a complaint against the latter for psychological and physical violence denounced by her children, we learned on Tuesday from Jean-Guillaume Le Mintier, the lawyer for the Morbihan department. The mother, a former jihadist, has been incarcerated in Rennes since 2022.
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According to Jean-Guillaume Le Mintier, the children’s lawyer, the eldest has “confided to his social worker that his mother taught him to cut off heads and throw grenades“They were”on-site witnesses to atrocities“, such as scenes of decapitation or slitting of the throat, said the lawyer, confirming information from the newspaper Le Parisien. The complaint is being processed, according to the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat).
Emilie König, aged 39 and now incarcerated in Rennes, is known for her membership in the Islamic State. She left for Syria in 2012. She is accused of having played the role of recruiter for the Islamic State organization. Captured by Kurdish forces in 2017, this daughter of a gendarme from Lorient was repatriated to France in July 2022, and indicted for criminal terrorist association.
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“What would be affirmed” by the children “does not correspond in any way to the state of the file“where investigating judges are investigating and have not done so, until now,”criticism on this point“, assured his lawyer Emmanuel Daoud. “From the start, Ms. König really fought to protect her children, so that they were in good physical and psychological health.“, he insisted.
She is the epitome of mother courage. I don’t know under what conditions the children’s words were collected
Emmanuel Daoud, lawyer for Emilie König
Emilie König gave birth to three children during her stay in Syria, a boy now aged nine and twin girls aged seven. The three children were repatriated from the Iraqi-Syrian war zone in January 2021 and entrusted to the supervision of the Morbihan department.
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“As soon as they arrived on French territory, the children provided information about their traumatic history“to the specialists who took care of them, according to the complaint, which AFP was able to consult. The Departmental Council of Morbihan had made a report to the courts on the “physical and psychological violence“inflicted by their mother as well as”scary scenes” which they would have attended.
When they arrived in France, the children thought that knives were only used to cut off heads (…) they say they saw throats being slit on TV and mimed the gesture
According to the complaint sent on September 19
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“Educational services have noted that the children have developed significant problems“, summarizes the complaint. “It is considered that the reparation and reconstruction of these children inevitably involves recognition of their status as victims.“, insisted Maître Le Mintier. Otherwise, “theThe risk is the trivialization of what they saw. By suing their mother for the atrocities they witnessed, they will integrate what we call social norms, in short, make the difference between what is good and what is bad. he estimated.
(With AFP)
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