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In France, ten women were accused on Monday of terrorist criminal association and placed in preventive detention, as announced by the National Antiterrorist Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat). They had been repatriated on Wednesday from jihadist prison camps in Syria.
Ten women repatriated last Wednesday from the jihadist prison camps in Syria were accused on Monday, October 24, of criminal terrorist conspiracy and placed in preventive detention, reported the French National Antiterrorist Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat).
The women, on whom a search warrant weighed, were arrested upon arrival on French soil on Wednesday night at the premises of the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI).
One of them has also been accused of crimes against humanity and genocide. Others, to subtract a parent from his legal obligations, compromising the health or safety of his child.
Another 19-year-old girl, who was taken to the Iraqi-Syrian zone when she was a child, has been the object of “educational attention, without for the time being there being evidence that requires her to be charged.”
The state of health of a twelfth woman was considered “incompatible” with her appearance before an investigating judge. She is currently under medical and administrative care.
Forty children also repatriated
All of them had been repatriated on Wednesday night along with three other women who had an arrest warrant and who had been charged on Thursday and jailed.
Along with these fifteen women, between the ages of 19 and 42, forty children who had been captured in the territories of northeastern Syria and northern Iraq occupied until 2019 by the Islamic State (IS) group and kept in camps under Kurdish control.
The children, many of whom were born there, “have been handed over to the services in charge of child care and will be subject to medical and social monitoring,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. Seven of them are orphans or are isolated, according to the Pnat.
This is the second major repatriation operation in three months. On July 5, France returned 16 mothers and 35 minors. Meanwhile, a woman and her two children were returned in early October.
In the hours following this second operation, the government spokesman, Olivier Véran, had declared on the LCI channel that there would still be “some collective repatriation movements” and that “it would be done gradually.”
The authorities in charge of the fight against terrorism had indicated in July that there were still a hundred women and about 250 children in the Syrian camps.
*With AFP; adapted from its French version
