Camille F., brilliant engineer, sentenced to twelve years for jihadist radicalization
A PhD holder in epidemiology, Camille F. joined the Islamic State organization and was sentenced to twelve years in prison by Paris's special criminal court, exposing the radicalization path of a high-level scientist.
This atypical jihadist figure analyzed her own trajectory toward jihadism, revealing psychological and ideological mechanisms at work in the radicalization of intellectual elites.
The case illustrates the major challenge posed by detecting and preventing radicalization within French professional elites.