Camp repatriated to Syria, ten women indicted and imprisoned

Continued for association of criminal terrorist criminals, all landed in France on October 20 in the company of 40 children.

Le Monde with AFP

Ten women repatriated last week in France from camps of jihadist prisoners in Syria were indicted for association of criminal criminal criminals and placed in pre-trial detention on Monday October 24, learned the France-Presse agency to the prosecution National anti -terrorist (PNAT).

The subject of a research mandate, they had been placed in police custody when they arrived on French soil, on the night of October 19 to 20, in the premises of the Directorate of Security Interior (DGSI).

One of them was also indicted for crimes against humanity and genocide. Some have also been indicted for subtraction by a parent to his legal obligations compromising the health or safety of his child.

Another young woman, 19 years old, taken to the Iraqi-Syrian zone when she was a child, was the subject of “educational care, no element having at this stage allowed to Require its indictment “. The state of health of a twelfth woman was deemed “incompatible” with the presentation to an investigating judge. It is for the time being taken care of medically and administratively.

All had been repatriated with three other women who, referred to by an arrest warrant, had been indicted on October 20 and imprisoned. Forty children were also repatriated with these fifteen women, aged 19 to 42 and captured in the territories of northeast Syria and northern Iraq occupied until 2019 by the Islamic State (IS) group, then maintained in camps under the control of the Kurds.

Children, many of whom were born on the spot, “were given to the services responsible for childhood assistance and will be the subject of medico-social follow-up,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. Among these, seven are orphans or isolated, according to the Pnat.

This is the second major repatriation operation in three months: on July 5, France returned sixteen mothers and 35 minors. In the meantime, a woman and her two children had been brought back in early October.

In the hours following this second operation, the government spokesperson, Olivier Véran, had declared on the LCI channel that there would still be “some collective repatriation movements” and that “it would gradually be done”. The authorities responsible for the fight against terrorism had specified in July that there were a hundred women left and nearly 250 children in the Syrian camps.

/Media reports.