A group of families and relatives of French jihadists called on the re-elected president on Wednesday April 27 to repatriate the children during his second term.prisoners in Syria” and “deprived of childhood in open-air prisons“.
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During the televised debate between the two rounds, the president-candidate had affirmed that child protection would be at the heart of the next five years. “It is high time to change direction, and to give these children, who are also victims of Daesh, their chance“Said in a press release the United Families collective, an association bringing together a large part of the approximately 80 wives of jihadists and 200 French children held in camps in northeastern Syria.
“It is high time to give them the protection that all children deserve», «to comply with our international commitments, and in particular to respect the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, of which France is a signatory“, continues the collective. These children arevictims, recognized as such by the United Nations, UNICEF or the Red Cross“and they live”without protection, without proper care, without access to education, without hopein camps for displaced persons under Kurdish control in Syria. They are “deprived of childhood in open-air prisons“, insist the families.
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Since 2016, 126 French children have returned from Syria or Iraq, most of them very young. Unlike its European neighbours, including Germany, which repatriated “a large part” children, Paris maintains a policy of returns to the dropper which attracts the ire while the living conditions on the spot are “appalling“, according to the UN. On December 14, 2021, a 28-year-old French woman with diabetes died, leaving a 6-year-old girl orphan.