At least three French women who were held by the Kurds in Syria were "recovered" by members of the Islamic State organization in favor of Turkish military intervention in the country, according to relatives reported to their lawyer on Tuesday. "We just got this account qe c dawla [the IS] ki recover us (sic)", sent one of these women to relatives according to a message seen by AFP. A relative also reported that the men who had taken care of the French women would have told them: "We are your brothers of the Islamic State, we will put you in the desert in safety". "You are part of the Islamic State you are staying there," they added.
"The Quai d'Orsay is warned"
Several French women who joined ISIS have left this weekend the camp of Ain Issa in northeastern Syria after the Turkish offensive launched since October 9 against the Syrian Kurds, who hold this territory since their victory, supported by the coalition, against the IS.
According to other messages heard by AFP, the Kurds have pushed them to leave the camp. They would then have seen their tents on fire and found themselves in the desert with very young children, before an "armed Syrian" offered to help them. "They take us to the desert," wrote the women Sunday night to their families, very worried about their fate.
"They have been part of the organization for a very long time," the mother of one of them told AFP, "so for the IS they are considered deserters. will say "they join the IS" ". "The Quai d'Orsay is warned," said AFP Me Marie Dosé, who has been alerting for months on the conditions of French women in camps in northeastern Syria. "It's been two years since we say that all this will happen," she warned on Monday, accusing France, refusing to repatriate its nationals, to "deliver them on a plateau to the IS".
About 12,000 IS fighters, including 2,500 to 3,000 foreigners, are being held in Kurdish-controlled prisons, according to figures from Kurdish sources. And IDP camps in northeastern Syria are home to around 12,000 foreigners, 8,000 children and 4,000 women. Tuesday, in a tribune, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country would prevent IS fighters from leaving northeastern Syria.