Ten children of jihadists French, who were detained in camps for the displaced under the control of the kurdish in Syria, have been repatriated to France in the night from Sunday 21 to Monday 22 June, announced the French ministry of foreign affairs. “France has made this day the return of the ten young children, French minors, orphans or humanitarian cases, who were living in camps in north-eastern Syria “, he made it known in a press release.
No details have been given on their arrival in France, nor on the circumstances in which they left Syria. “These children have been handed over to French judicial authorities, are now subject to a medical follow-up and support by social services “has only specified the Quai d’orsay.
Since the collapse of the group islamic State (EI) in march 2019, the France has brought back twenty-eight children of Syria : five in march 2019, twelve in June 2019 and a girl with heart defect in April.
Paris “thanked “ the administration’s semi-autonomous kurdish north east of Syria for its “co-operation “ in this new repatriation, stressing to have acted “in view of the situation of these young children are particularly vulnerable, and in the framework of the authorisations given by the local officials “.
Three hundred children of jihadists French
According to the collective Families united, which brings together relatives of the children in France, some three hundred children of jihadists French were held under tents in the camps of Al-Hol and Roj in the north-east of Syria. The collective regularly asks the French authorities to arrange for the repatriation of these children, as well as that of their mothers.
France is reluctant to bring back some one hundred and fifty adult men and women, which it considers complicit in the AR and which she wants the judgment on the spot. The situation is also complicated for the non-orphaned children, for which the permission of the mother is necessary.
The authorities of kurds who assert they hold about twelve thousand foreigners, and four thousand women and eight thousand children in three idp camps of North-East syria, the vast majority in Al-Hol. They have often called on the concerned countries to repatriate their nationals, claiming not to be able to keep them much longer. A call is also regularly taken by the United States concerned with the risk of escape and dispersion of the jihadists.
Thirteen jihadist French, including Hayat Boumeddiene, the girlfriend of one of the perpetrators of the attacks of January 2015 in France, had escaped the camps where they were held, according to the Center for analysis of terrorism (CAT).
In 2019, which is five hundred ten-seven people, including three hundred and sixty and eleven children, died in the camp at Al-Hol, noted in mid-January to the Agence France-Presse (AFP), a head of Red Crescent kurdish in the camp.
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