This trial for “genocide“Nevertheless has a doubly symbolic character. Because he will be without Sammy Djedou, the man being presumed dead. He was indeed killed by an American drone in December 2016, in the capital of the Islamic State in Raqqa, in Syria.
The Belgian was among the senior IS executives. An organization in which he quickly climbed the ladder. Leaving in Syria at the end of 2012 at only 23 years old, Sammy Djedou has risen until it became one of the heads of the Daesh external operations cell, responsible for organizing attacks. According to the Pentagon, “Abu Moussab“Of his nickname, was notably a relative of Abu Mohammed Al-Adnani, then spokesperson and number two of IS.
A religious minority
This trial will also be of capital importance for the Yézidis, a long -standing people. On August 3, 2014, the Islamic State launched a flash offensive against this community in Iraq. This religious minority, in millennial traditions, is considered “unfaithful“By the Islamist group. Ethnic purification had then started. In addition to the terrible massacres, thousands of young women – sometimes still children – were reduced to the state of sex slaves offered to combatants.
Yezidis genocide: 10 years ago, absolute horror
In 2021, the House of Representatives recognized and condemned this genocide. At the time, parliamentarians asked the executive “to encourage and support the efforts of Belgian justice in order to identify and pursue the possible Belgian authors of crimes with regard to the Yézidie community. “In the columns of EveningRTBF and Morningthe federal prosecutor’s office indicates that ten other similar files are still in instruction.
