France indicts two women over 'Syria-bound' teenage girl
Paris: French prosecutors charged two women over the disappearance of a 15-year-old girl who is believed to have travelled to Syria to fight alongside jihadist rebels. The pair were charged by a Paris court with complicity in criminal association in relation to a terrorist undertaking, a judicial source told AFP. Investigators suspect that the high school girl from the southern city of Avignon had briefly stayed with one of the two indicted women. One of those, a 24-year-old mother of four, is a resident of a Paris suburb and is believed to have been preparing to travel to Syria herself to join her husband and support jihadists in their fight against President Bashar al-Assad's regime. "My client denies any desire to leave for Syria with her children. It appears she has fallen prey to pressure from abroad," the mother's lawyer, Yassine Yakouti, said on Thursday. According to Interior Minister Manuel Valls, as many as 700 French nationals could have joined the fi