Mother fined after dressing toddler son Jihad in 'I am a bomb' t-shirt

A woman and her brother have been convicted of “justifying a crime” after her toddler son – named Jihad – went to a French nursery school in a T-shirt bearing the words “I am a bomb” and “Jihad: Born on Sept. 11.”

Bouchra Bagour was given a €2,000 fine and a one-month suspended prison sentence and her brother, Zayed, received a €4,000 fine and two-month suspended sentence in Nimes today.

Prosecutors had appealed after a lower court in nearby Avignon acquitted the defendants in April.

Gaele Guenoun, the mother’s lawyer, said she was astonished the verdict was overruled.

The case centered on a teacher’s complaint after the boy, whose birthday is September 11, wore the shirt to nursery last year.

The brother had the shirt made.