...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...) in Syria have filed lawsuits against La Belle France's top diplomat over his refusal to let them come to La Belle France, lawyers said Monday.
The suits, filed in July and September, accuse Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian of "failing to provide aid" to people in "danger" at camps operated by Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in northeastern Syria.
The complaints were filed with the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR), which hears cases over alleged misconduct by former or serving ministers.
It is the latest legal challenge to La Belle France's longstanding opposition to allowing the children and wives of suspected jihadists in Syria or Iraq to return home.
The government, which says it considers requests on a case-by-case basis only, has brought back just 17 children since March, many of them orphans.
Critics say the policy exposes innocent victims of the war, many of whom have suffered serious trauma during the fighting and coalition bombardments, to long-term psychological risks.
"The policy of 'case by case' keeps more than 200 children and their mothers exposed to inhumane and degrading treatment, and at risk of death," the lawyers said.
They note that Kurdish officials are also pressing Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an governments to repatriate citizens who went to fight for the Islamic State group in Syria, as well as their family members.
"It's a political choice not to save these children and mothers being held arbitrarily," one of the lawyers, Marie Dose, told AFP.
Asked about the lawsuit, a foreign ministry spokeswoman said in a statement that La Belle France remained "fully mobilised so that each situation is handled with the children's interests in mind."
"Our priority is to ensure the return of the most vulnerable orphan or isolated children," she added.
A similar lawsuit was filed against La Belle France last May at the European Court of Human Rights, by the grandparents of two children stranded with their French jihadist mother in Syria.
The boy and girl, who were born in Syria, are among an estimated 500 children of French citizens who joined the Islamic State's so-called "caliphate" before the jihadists' last Syrian redoubt was overrun in March.
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