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French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian received by Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi in Baghdad on October 17, 2019. Prime Minister Media Office / Handout via REUTERS

The head of French diplomacy is in Baghdad, Thursday, October 17, to discuss the possibility of transferring and judging in Iraq foreign jihadists, including 60 French, currently in the hands of Syrian Kurds.

With our correspondent in Baghdad, Lucile Wasserman

This Thursday, October 17, Paris and Baghdad are trying to agree on the fate of foreign fighters held in northeastern Syria and how to judge them.

No unpublished announcement has been made for the time by the French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, visiting Iraq. He repeated on October 17, during a press conference, what he had said the previous days: " Paris seeks to find a solution with Baghdad to set up a device to judge these fighters. "

Death sentence

Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed Ali al-Hakim, for his part, said Baghdad wanted at least to repatriate all Iraqis to Syria to try them on its territory.

The question is therefore whether other foreigners, including the French, could be part of these transfers and under what conditions. To make these people judge in Iraq, under the current Iraqi legislation, would be contrary to the international commitments of France, especially since Iraq applies the death penalty.

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