Eight women repatriated to France from jihadist prison camps in Syria on Tuesday were charged with criminal terrorist association and jailed on Friday, while a teenager prosecuted for the same offense was placed under judicial supervision, a judicial source said. Some of the suspects are also being prosecuted for child neglect, the same source said. The eight women, who were the subject of a French judicial search warrant, and the boy, who turned 18 on Friday, were arrested on arrival in France on Tuesday at the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI) and one at the Anti-Terrorism Unit (SAT) of the Paris Police General Directorate.
35 minors and 16 women were repatriated to France
The women and the teenager were part of a group of 35 minors and 16 women repatriated to France from jihadist prison camps in northeastern Syria. The children, seven of whom are unaccompanied minors, were cared for by Yvelines Childhood Social Aid. The sixteen women were all charged with criminal terrorist association and some degree of child neglect and then remanded in custody. As of Tuesday, seven of them, included in the arrest warrant, were presented to the anti-terrorism investigative judges of the Paris court. An eighth woman suffering from colon cancer was diagnosed on Wednesday “medical treatment”according to a source familiar with the matter.
The sixteen women, aged between 22 and 39 and French nationals, all but two of whom have French children, will be assessed in custody to determine whether they are still radicalized or have broken Islamic State doctrine. IS) group. Among them is Emilie Koenig, one of the most famous French jihadists. Accused of recruiting for the Islamic State group and calling for attacks in the West, he was blacklisted by the United Nations as one of its most dangerous militants. This is the first mass repatriation of suspected jihadist children and their mothers since the fall of 2019. “caliphate” of the EI group, from which the deadly attacks of November 13, 2015 in France were planned.
Until then, the French authorities had only brought back a few children “case by case”. “This operation, effective and successful, went quietly, which indicates that it should continue and quickly.”responded to AFP Me Marie Dosé, who defends several women. “Even this morning the kids who are still in the camps were saying ‘why not me?’ We can’t let the kids think it’s 50 degrees below zero in a tent all summer., he added. Ahead of this repatriation, 120 French women and about 290 children were detained in Kurdish-controlled Syrian camps, French intelligence and counter-terrorism coordinator Laurent Nunez told AFP on Friday.
Source: Le Figaro
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