Three French women including a niece of notorious jihadist propagandists went on trial in Paris on Monday, accused of travelling to the Middle East to join the Islamic State group and taking their eight children with them.

One of the women is Jennyfer Clain, 34, a niece of Jean-Michel and Fabien Clain, who claimed responsibility on behalf of IS for the attacks on November 13, 2015, when 130 people were killed at the Bataclan concert hall and elsewhere in Paris in shootings that traumatised France.

The Clain brothers are presumed dead. In 2022, they were sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment without parole.

The two other women on trial are Jennyfer Clain's sister-in-law, Mayalen Duhart, 42, and 67-year-old Christine Allain, the women's mother-in-law. They face up to 30 years in pris

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