INTERVIEW
800 ISIS-affiliated foreign jihadists have fled a camp in the north of Syria near Kurdish and pro-Turkish fighting, Kurdish officials said on Sunday. "These are not just families of jihadists but people who have knowingly committed themselves to build the Islamic State at the moment this dictatorial political offensive was preparing," said Alain Richard, former Defense Minister and Senator LREM, about the repatriation of these relatives. "Presenting them today as mere victims is a travesty of reality."
The government was right to keep these families there
Worried, the government calls on Turkey to "end its intervention as soon as possible" against the Kurds. "My conviction is that the government was right to keep them there and maintain control over the Kurdish authorities in this region," said the elected representative. "Because the priority is the safety of the French.