Fifteen jihadist women and 40 children arrived at 3:30 a.m. on Thursday at Villacoublay.
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France has repatriated Thursday, October 20, 15 jihadist women and 40 children who were in detention camps in northeast Syria, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced. This collective repatriation operation, the second since the summer, confirms the rupture of Paris with the policy of the “case by case”, which has earned it to be condemned by international bodies and blamed by French advisory organizations.
“After his conviction by the Committee on the Rights of the United Nations Child and the European Court of Human Rights, France has no other choice than to put an end to its policy of the case On a case-by-case basis and must repatriate all the children and all the mothers currently detained in the Syrian northeast camps, “said lawyer Marie Dosé, who represents several of the women detained in the camps.
According to a security source cited by the France-Presse agency (AFP), 14 mothers, a young adult woman without children and 40 minors arrived at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in Villacoublay, near Paris. The minors were taken care of by the childhood aid services and will be the subject of medico-social follow-up. The adults were given to the competent judicial authorities, specifies the Quai d’Orsay in its press release.
Until the summer of 2022, France favored repatriation to the “case by case”, which consists, de facto, to bring back to the national soil of children without their mothers, that is to say either orphans, children whose mothers had agreed to sign a document for renouncing their parental rights. Only 35 alleged orphaned children had thus been repatriated by Paris, including the last in January 2021.
“What a mess!”
On July 5, Paris carried out the most important repatriation operation carried out since the fall of the last bastion of the Islamic State organization (IS), in March 2019, in Baghouz. Sixteen jihadist women and 35 children were then repatriated. The authorities responsible for the fight against terrorism indicated that a hundred women and nearly 250 children were still in the Syrian camps. The exact figure remains difficult to establish with certainty. At the beginning of October, a woman and her two children were able to be transferred in turn.
Among European countries, France was increasingly isolated in its choice of repatriation “on a case -by -case basis”. Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands and Germany have decided to repatriate all of their children’s nationals, in the company of their mothers when possible. The reversal of the Elysée was also motivated by the multiplication of convictions by international bodies.
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