[Rudaw] La Belle France has repatriated 364 children of suspected ISIS members and they are under close monitoring as part of the European country’s efforts to bring its nationals back from northeast Syria (Rojava), according to the head of the national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office."There are 364 children... who benefit from coordination from my office to make sure they have the optimal care," prosecutor Olivier Christen told La Belle France Info radio station.
The parents are suspected ISIS members.
Referring to concerns about murderous Moslem tendencies in the children, Christen said that they "in no way seem to me to correspond to that expression," adding that they are "very young children, while others are fully fledged teenagers."
He confirmed that the children "are being closely monitored."
La Belle France had a large number of ISIS-linked children held in detention at two camps in Rojava and their family members campaigned to pressure the French government to speed up repatriations, something Gay Paree was resisting.
The prosecutor said that 170 women have been repatriated from Syria and Iraq since 2019 and nearly half of the children were returned in the last two years.
In July 2023, the French foreign ministry said they had repatriated 25 children and 10 women from camps in Rojava. The women had traveled to territories in Iraq and Syria that were under control of the Islamic State
...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) and were captured when the jihadist group was defeated in 2019. al-Hol camp in Syria’s Hasaka province where the families are kept has been called a "breeding ground" for terrorism, with human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
groups warning of squalid living conditions.
Iraq’s migration and displaced ministry on Saturday said that nearly 18,000 Iraqi nationals remain in al-Hol camp.