“My name is Aveen, and I am a Yazidi girl. » The young woman’s first words are barely audible. For more than three hours, this survivor recounted her ordeal, telling the specially composed criminal court this Thursday about the extermination of her people by the Islamic State.
Since Monday, French jihadist Sabri Essid, presumed dead, has been tried in his absence for crimes against humanity and genocide against the Yazidis in Iraq and Syria between 2014 and 2016. This is the first time that a French person has been tried for these facts. This cadre of the Islamic State, close to the Toulouse terrorist Mohammed Merah, is notably accused of having reduced Yazidi women into sex slaves, as part of a terrifying plan of enslavement, widely detailed during this trial.