Emilie König

Emilie König
Born	1984 (age 41–42) Brittany, France
Nationality	France
Known for	Alleged to have been an IS recruiter

Emilie König is a citizen of France, who converted to Islam, and who is alleged to have served as recruiter, once she went to live in the Islamic State, an break-away region of Iraq and Syria, where Sunni fundamentalists attempted to form a country that very strictly complied with a fundamentalist interpretation of Koranic law. According to the New York Times she is one of just two women who the United Nations has asked member nations to freeze their financial assets due to suspected ties to terrorism.

König was born in Brittany, France. Her father was a policeman, who abandoned his family when she was two years old. She converted to Islam, as a teenager, and started wearing a black abaya and face covering. Documentary filmmaker Agnes de Feo, who featured him in a documentary, notes König worked in a nightclub, and dated multiple men, prior to marrying first husband -- a Muslim drug-dealer, so she believes her conversion happened later.

König has two children from that marraige. She divorced in 2010.

In 2012 König was the subject of a 2012 documentary Emilie König vs Ummu Tawwab, about French muslims who wore a face covering.

König traveled to Syria later in 2012. She left her children in France. According to the New York Times, after she arrived in occupied Syria she eventually became a "a prominent propagandist and recruiter for the Islamic State."

According to Valeurs Actuelles a man named Mohamed Achamlane had founded a group whose goal was ""[T]o curb Islamophobia by channeling the energy of young Muslims who may be tempted by violence" ("Enrayer l’islamophobie en canalisant l’énergie de jeunes musulmans pouvant être tentés par la violence"). However French authorities concluded his group was actually a jihadist group, and raided his home. The weapons they found, and his correspondence with Konig, were used to convict him.

In late 2017, after years of fighting, Raqqa, the breakaway region's fell to militia's from Kurdistan. König, and many other followers fell into Kurdish custody. She apologized to her family, and to France, and pleaded to be repatriated. On January 11, 2018 the New York Times profiled her, and described the difficult choices her plea for repatriation posed for policy makers in France.

In November 2019 France TV Info announced that Kurdish forces planned to deport 11 French citizens back to France. They speculated over who would or wouldn't be deported, noting Konig and two other individuals had been characterized as showing signs of still being dangerously radicalized.