Overview
- On March 10, France’s special terrorism court sentenced Océane Granger for joining the Islamic State after traveling to Syria in 2015.
- Granger will serve the remaining sub‑two‑year portion of her term under electronic monitoring with a five‑year socio‑judicial follow‑up.
- Amirouche Belounis, tried in absentia as presumed dead, received 30 years for terrorist association and for appearing in a 2016 ISIS propaganda video.
- Evidence presented in court tied Belounis to the Buttes‑Chaumont network, a security watchlisting, weapons training in the Maghreb, and combat in Iraq.
- The couple left France with their baby using forged Belgian documents from an officine later linked to the November 13 attackers, and Granger stayed in ISIS territory until 2019 before her 2022 repatriation and 2025 release under an ankle monitor.