“The minors have been given to the services responsible for childhood assistance and will be the subject of medico-social follow-up. Adults have been given to the competent judicial authorities,” said the ministry of the Foreign Affairs Thursday.
Le Monde
An announcement expected by families and associations. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said, In a press release Thursday October 20, having repatriated 40 children and 15 women from the jihadist prison camps in the North -It of Syria, on the night of Wednesday to Thursday.
“The minors have been given to the services responsible for childhood assistance and will be the subject of medico-social follow-up. Adults have been given to the competent judicial authorities”, specifies the Quai d’Orsay .
conviction by the European Court of Human Rights
These repatriations of French nationals present on Syrian soil follow that of a woman and two children, on October 3. On July 5, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also announced the return to France of sixteen jihadists and thirty-five minors, including seven isolated children. A sudden acceleration of repatriations, while France hitherto carried out a drop-down policy, criticized by women and the UN child’s rights committee.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) also condemned France on July 14, so as not to have justified the non-employment of two women of jihadists and their children, whose relatives had deposited Two requests before the European jurisdiction located in Strasbourg, May 6, 2019 and October 7, 2020.