Anna Erelle: ‘In front of me was this man who had killed women and children’

Anna Erelle is the pseudonym of a French journalist who spent a month undercover investigating the secretive world of jihadi brides for a Paris magazine. Last year, she created a fake Facebook profile under the name of Mélodie, a 20-year-old recent convert to Islam. During the course of her investigations, she made contact with Abou Bilel, a notorious Islamic State fighter, who asked her to travel