October 04-2013
A woman in France who sent her three-year-old son named Jihad—to school in a T-shirt labeled, “Jihad, Born September 11, I am a bomb,” was fined and given a suspended jail sentence by a French court Friday.
Bouchra Bagour was found guilty of condoning a criminal act, along with her brother, Zeyad, who bought the child the T-shirt.
The matter ended up in court after Jihad went to his nursery school in September 2012 wearing the T-shirt, upsetting staff and prompting a local official to take legal action.
Overturning an earlier acquittal, the appeals court in the southern town of Nimes fined the woman 2,000 euros ($2,700) and gave her a one-year suspended jail sentence, doubling that fine and suspended jail sentence for the uncle.