Iraq sentences all 11 French ISIS suspects to death

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A Iraqi court sentences to death two more French nationals for joining the Islamic State group, leaving all 11 Frenchmen transferred from Syria facing the gallows. WorldNews

COURTROOM. A picture shows a courtroom at Baghdad's Karkh main appeals court building in the western sector of the Iraqi capital on May 29, 2019 where French jihadists accused of belonging to the Islamic state are being tried. Photo by Sabah Arar/AFP

Although he denied it at trial, Delhomme told investigators he joined the Tariq Ibn Ziyad brigade, an IS unit described by US officials as"a European foreign terrorist fighter cell". French government spokeswoman Sibeth Ndiaye reiterated Sunday, June 2, that officials were intervening"at the highest level" in the cases.

A group of prominent French lawyers said on Monday that the execution of French jihadists on death row would be a disgrace for France.

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