Eight of these jihadist women were indicted on Friday, while the first eight had been almost as soon as they arrived on French territory on Tuesday. An 18 -year -old young boy is prosecuted for the same offense.
Le Monde with AFP
Three days after their return to French territory, the sixteen women repatriated from the jihadist prison camps in Syria are now prosecuted for association of criminal terrorist criminals. They are in pre -trial detention, while a boy, prosecuted for the same offense, was placed under judicial supervision.
Eight of these women were indicted on Friday July 8, when the first eight had been almost as soon as they arrived in France. Some are also continued for children’s abandonment.
These women and the boy, who was 18 years old this Friday, were part of a group of thirty-five minors and sixteen women repatriated to France of the jihadist prison camps located in northeast Syria. Children, seven of whom are isolated minors, have been supported by social assistance to Yvelines. 2> an evaluation to determine the degree of radicalization
The eight women indicted on Friday, were the subject of a mandate for the research of French justice. They had been placed, as well as the boy, in police custody on Tuesday as soon as they arrived in France at the Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI) and, for one, in the anti -terrorist section (SAT) of the Prefecture Paris police.
From Tuesday, seven other women, referred to by an arrest warrant, had been presented to judges of anti -terrorist investigation of the Paris court. An eighth woman, suffering from colon cancer, had been on Wednesday after “medical care”, according to a source close to the file.
These sixteen women, aged 22 to 39 and of French nationality, with the exception of two of them who have French children, will be the subject of an evaluation to determine if they are still radicalized or if they have broken with the doctrine of the Islamic State organization (IS).
more than 100 women and 200 children still detained in Syria
Among them is Emilie König, one of the best known French jihadists. Accused of having recruited for IS and called upon to commit attacks in the West, she had been placed by the United Nations (UN) on her black list of the most dangerous fighters.
This is the first massive repatriation of children of alleged jihadists and their mothers since the fall, in 2019, of the “caliphate” of IS, from which the deadly attacks of November 13 were planned in particular 2015 in France. Until then, only a few children had been brought back by the French authorities to “case by case”.
“This effective and successful operation took place calmly, which proves that it must be continued and quickly,” reacted to the France-Presse agency (AFP) M Sup> Marie Dosé, who defends several women. “This morning again, children who are still in the camps repeated” why not me? “We can’t let the children think that all summer in a tent under 50 ° C,” she added.
Before this repatriation, 120 women and nearly 290 French children were detained in the Syrian camps controlled by the Kurds, on Friday told AFP Laurent Nunez, the French intelligence coordinator and the fight against terrorism .