Three jihadist women and nine children arrested this summer in Turkey landed in France Tuesday, where adults were detained and children entrusted to Child Welfare. One of the three French women suspected of belonging to the Islamic State group is Jennifer Clain, the niece of brothers Fabien and Jean-Michel Clain, who claimed on behalf of the IS the attacks of 13 November 2015 in France, said concordant sources to AFP, confirming information from France Inter . For "the filiation, it remains to carry out checks but it is the orientation", declared a source close to the file.
Jennifer Clain was arrested by the Turkish authorities with two other women in July in Kilis province, bordering Syria. She is married to Kévin Gonot, a Frenchman sentenced to death in Iraq on May 26 for belonging to the IS. The other two adults are the wife of Thomas Collange, the half-brother of Kevin Gonot, and the father of this same Kevin Gonot, according to another source close. Targeted by arrest warrants, they were placed in detention before being presented to an examining magistrate for possible indictment.
The niece of Fabien and Jean-Michel Clain back
The nine children, aged from 3 to 13 years, were entrusted by the justice to the Child welfare (ASE) of Seine-Saint-Denis, which depends Roissy airport by which the majority of returns. Their arrival brings to "fifty the number of children supported by the ASE 93", told the AFP the president (PS) of the County Council, Stéphane Troussel. He regrets that the department assumes their care "without any help from the state", "despite my many alerts for a year and a half." Of the fifty children in care, "only three or four had a link with the Seine-Saint-Denis," he said.
Fabien and Jean-Michel Clain, veterans of French jihadism who were at the heart of the propaganda apparatus of the Islamic State group, are given dead since February, according to several sources concordant of a strike of the coalition. Since their departure from France - the youngest had joined Syria before the eldest, who will go there in early 2015 - the two men remained untraceable, the authorities thinking that they were still in the country. This operation, separate from the case-by-case repatriation of children from Syrian Kurdistan, is part of Turkey's regular expulsion of jihadists.