France, Oct. 15 -- Tahar Aouidate, known as Selma, appeared before the special court in Paris that tries terrorist cases, charged with participating in a terrorist criminal conspiracy over her involvement with the Islamic State (IS) between 2014 and 2020, as well as recruiting another person.

She is a revenante - the word used for a woman who travelled to Syria or Iraq to join terrorist organisations, including the IS, before returning to France.

Women accounted for nearly a third of the approximately 1,500 French nationals who travelled to the region, and proportionally more of them have returned to France.

According to the latest figures from the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (PNAT), cited by Le Monde, 176 of the 395 ad...