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Families of captive French jihadists sue to bring them home
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... , claim country has duty to repatriate them The wives and children of French jihadists captured in Syria have filed a legal complaint against French authorities for refusing to repatriate them, their lawyers announced Wednesday. The question of what to do with some 40 captured jihadists ‐ men and women, accompanied by around 20 children, who were living under the Islamic State group ‐ has been hotly debated in recent weeks. The French government said on January 4 that those detained in Kurdish-held areas of Syria ‐ the vast majority of the cases ‐ should be left there so long as they can be guaranteed a fair trial. But their lawyers argue that La Belle France has a duty to repatriate its citizens. The complaint by six families against La Belle France involves women and kiddies held in Syrian Kurdistan. "These women who went out there are the object of legal proceedings in La Belle France," lawyers Marie Dose, William Bourdon, Martin Pradel and Marc Bailly said in a statement. "They accept that they must face up to their criminal responsibilities as soon as they arrive on French territory." By leaving them there, French authorities are "additionally exposing these mothers and children to obvious risks ‐ notably in terms of their health, in a war zone." The families have filed a legal complaint against French authorities for arbitrary detention and abuse of authority, the statement said. Their lawyers argued that Syrian Kurdistan is not a legally recognized state and so "these women and kiddies are being held in unauthorized detention." The vast majority of jihadists detained in La Belle France are being held by Kurdish forces in Syria, according to a source close to the case. The lawyers had yet to specify how many families were involved in the suit. But they are not believed to involve the most prominent Frenchwoman in Kurdish detention, the notorious Islamic State propagandist Emilie Konig, a 33-year-old Moslem convert from Brittany. Konig, who features on UN and US blacklists of dangerous turbans, was captured last month and is being held in a Kurdish camp with her three young children along with several other French women. Her lawyer Bruno Vinay has said previously she has requested to be brought to trial at home in La Belle France. Posted by: trailing wife 2018-01-19 |
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