The families of French women who have joined the ranks of the Islamic State (IS) in Syria are calling on Emmanuel Macron to ensure that their grandchildren, taken away or born on the spot, are spared by the international coalition.
Families of children of jihadists have written to Emmanuel Macron to ask him so that their grandchildren taken away or born there are spared by the international coalition.
"We ask you to intervene urgently so that our French grandchildren, taken despite themselves to Syria, are not killed by the French army and the forces of the international coalition , " write these parents of radicalized young women. , gathered in the collective "United Families".
Killed under the bombs of the coalition
In this letter dated Wednesday, they say they receive messages from their "terrified" girls who report French, including women and children, killed under the bombs of the coalition. They specify that 34 grandchildren of members of the collective were killed on November 13 and that others are now orphans.
"Women with their children in large numbers were strafed in the street" where they queued for bread, add the authors of the letter, according to which "white phosphorus bombs were used" .
French sources reported at the end of October the French government's decision to prepare for the repatriation of children from Syria, but without their mothers. However, nothing has come to confirm since such an operation was actually engaged and the vice has tightened again on the last pockets of resistance of the IS, in the areas of Idlib and Hajine, near the border. Iraqi, where French jihadists have entrenched themselves with their families.
"They did not ask to leave or to be born in a country at war"
"We do not want to take our children out of justice," write the parents of the French trapped in these pockets or detained by Kurdish forces. "They must be held accountable for going to Syria for belonging to a jihadist ideology. They were manipulated and recruited by Daesh on French territory, " they add.
"The majority of our grandchildren are young and certainly innocent. They did not ask to leave or to be born in a country at war. These parents accuse the French government of leaving "no chance of survival" to their children and grandchildren. "According to international conventions, France must help and protect its citizens, especially children, including in armed conflict," they conclude. "We (...) just ask that our daughters and our grandchildren escape this hell (...) They are also children of the Republic. Save those who can still be saved. "