Syria: parliamentarians will visit camps where women and children of jihadists are detained

A French parliamentary delegation would like to enter Syria to meet the jihadist women detained by the Kurds.

A trip organized by the lawyers of ten of them, who have started a hunger strike to demand their return to France, which our columnist Didier François describes as "means of blackmail".

EDITORIAL

A dozen women who had joined the Islamic State in Syria began a hunger strike at the end of February, in order to demand their return to France.

A delegation of French parliamentarians should soon meet these jihadists detained by the Kurds and visit their camps, a trip organized by the lawyers of ten of them.

For Didier François, we must not forget "that they voluntarily gave their support until his last day" to the caliphate.

Deplorable conditions of detention

"This is somewhat the culmination of a campaign designed to put pressure on the President of the Republic, and the objective of which is clearly to obtain the repatriation of jihadist women of French origin detained in Syrian Kurdistan, since the fall of the Islamic State in February 2019.

The main argument put forward by the lawyers and by the families obviously being the extremely rustic conditions of detention that the some 120 French women and their 300 children have suffered for three years in the Al-Hol and Roj camps, which are far away. to be resorts.

Access to water, healthcare, and sometimes food are limited, winters are harsh, summers are hot.

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But what their defenders systematically forget to remind is that this was already the case when they decided to join Daesh without anyone else forcing them to do so.

They accommodated themselves, without ever complaining at the time, of the bombings and abuses committed for five years by this Caliphate to which they voluntarily provided their support until its last day.

They have never condemned - quite the contrary - the massacre of the Shiites, the slavery of Yazidis, the crucifixion of Christians, the defenestrations of homosexuals or the attacks of the Bataclan, which they voluntarily procured to replenish the jihadist ranks and that their children were sent from an early age to train in the military camps of the Cubs of the Caliphate.

Some are even present during sessions of torture of hostages or prisoners led by their fathers.

Children "victims" of "blackmail"?

These children are however victims, of their mothers in particular who use them as a means of blackmail to obtain their exit from the Kurdish camps, by refusing to sign the papers which would make it possible to repatriate their children legally.

Because this is what the French government is doing: 35 orphans have already been taken care of and placed in specialized structures, because it is obviously out of the question to leave these traumatized children in the sole care of their grandparents.

There is therefore a kind of indecency in wanting to pass off these hunger strike jihadists as victims of the democratic system and in trying to make people forget their crimes.

This can be understood at the limit on the part of the lawyers, it is their role, but it is still much less on the part of the elected representatives of the Republic who accompany them in this process. "