BFMTV documentary explores the issue of repatriation of French children from Daesh

Héloïse Goy, edited by Amani Dhifaoui 11:31, January 03, 2022

INTERVIEW

Should we repatriate to France the children of the French who have left to join the ranks of Daesh in Syria and Iraq?

This is the question that Fanny Morel and Noé Pignède propose to explore, in a report broadcast this Monday on BFMTV, an immersion in the camps in eastern Syria, controlled by the Kurds, where there are nearly 200 French children who are awaiting repatriation to France in precarious conditions.

The report is entitled

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We learn in particular that 200 French children are now detained in camps in Syria.

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The thorny issue of repatriation

All of them have (or have had) parents who joined ISIS. Some are orphans, others are accompanied by their mothers, a hundred French women, all under international arrest warrant for having joined a terrorist organization. This repatriation of young French people detained in Syria is still a very sensitive subject for the government today. Co-director Fanny Morel did not get a response from the Elysée to her requests for interviews.

This question is however very important to tackle today according to her.

"This is first of all a humanitarian issue, there are still 61 children who died between January and September 2021 in the camps in northeastern Syria," she explains on Europe 1. "And then we are on the eve of a presidential election, we know that this subject divides within the political class, and finally there are very few candidates who position themselves on this question of repatriation. subject has been put under the rug a bit "

Very precarious conditions

The journalists were able to meet some of these children even if it was not easy to enter this Roj camp with cameras. This is what the journalist Fanny Morel tells: "It is thanks to our fixer that we were allowed to enter the Roj camp twice, twice for 1h30, escorted by a Kurdish rank and under certain conditions. . We had a ban on filming the guards at the entrance, a ban on filming inside the tents of women and children, and a ban on giving anything to these women to these children who are being held in the camps ”. The children, mostly under six, live in very precarious conditions.

After Daesh, the impossible return of French children?

 is broadcast Monday evening at 8:50 p.m. on BFMTV.

To close the evening on this theme, Laurent Nuñez, the national coordinator of intelligence and the fight against terrorism will answer Aurélie Casse's questions.