Twelve members of a France-based jihadist network that sent fighters to Syria were given prison sentences on Tuesday, including a woman who had taken her three children to join her husband there, AFP reports.
The court in Paris heard that the group had become radicalized after attending a mosque in Villiers-sur-Marne in the Paris suburbs where they came into contact with their "guru", a radical imam called Mustapha Mraoui.
Mraoui, who is on the run, and another man, Karim Assani, who held a religious post at the mosque, were considered by prosecutors to be the
organizers of the network. They were each sentenced to 10 years in prison in absentia.