Syria: a French woman dies in the Roj camp, her daughter still there
Samira, a Belgian national married to French ISIS member Karam El-Harchaoui, pictured with their son at Camp Roj in northern Syria, where thousands of women and children languish.
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A young French woman died of illness on Tuesday, December 14 in a detention camp in northeastern Syria.
In this region, 80 French women and 200 children, as well as thousands of nationals of other countries, are still detained by the Syrian Kurdish forces, following the territorial defeat of the Islamic State group in 2019. France still refuses to repatriate the country. most of its nationals.
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His family and lawyer do not wish to communicate his identity.
She left France for Syria in 2014, to join the self-proclaimed caliphate of the Islamic State group.
When the jihadist organization was defeated, the young woman and her daughter, now aged 6, were locked up in the Roj camp, in northeastern Syria.
Since then, their relatives have stepped up to the French authorities, without succeeding in getting them repatriated despite the diabetes and kidney failure from which the mother was suffering, diseases which were fatal to her.
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Me Marie Dosé is the family lawyer.
“
France,
” she said, “
has always refused to repatriate her.
It is completely assumed: we will let her die there.
And so that's what happened.
"
This Frenchwoman was 28 years old.
She was buried there on the day of her death.
Her daughter is still in the camp controlled by the Syrian Kurdish forces.
This little girl, she is 6 years old, she has spent half of her life in a camp watching her mother dying.
Today she is an orphan, I think the cruelty is more than enough there.
This child must now be repatriated immediately, she has a family in France, she has lost her mother, she is in a state of post-traumatic shock, I do not know very well what we will be able to tell her when she has 10 or 15 years old, how are we going to explain to her why she witnessed the agony and death of her mother, even though this child is innocent and a victim of war.
So far, 35 children have been able to leave northeastern Syria, during the rare repatriation operations organized by France.
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