Europe 1 with AFP 4:09 p.m., October 04, 2022

The national anti-terrorist prosecutor's office said on Tuesday that a woman and her two children, who were detained in a camp in Syria, were repatriated to France on Monday.

This woman, of Franco-Moroccan nationality, who was the subject of an arrest warrant, was arrested on her arrival and presented to a Parisian investigating judge.

A woman and her two children, who were detained in a camp in Syria, were repatriated to France on Monday, the national anti-terrorist prosecutor's office (Pnat) told AFP on Tuesday, confirming information from several sources familiar with the matter.

This woman, of Franco-Moroccan nationality, who was targeted by an arrest warrant, was arrested on her arrival and presented to a Parisian investigating judge, according to the Pnat.

Her children were taken into care under an educational assistance procedure.

Asked, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not comment immediately.

Travel on board a medical plane

This woman and her two children landed Monday evening at Le Bourget airport aboard a medical plane, said an airport source.

"I am delighted that two children, including one very sick, have been repatriated with their mother and escaped the worst," reacted the lawyer for this woman, Me Marie Dosé, asked by AFP.

"But the arbitrariness is in full swing: why them and not others? So many children are as sick as this little boy, and some even more so," she lamented, however.

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“The Elysée explains that the case-by-case doctrine is over and continues to sort out the children, and to act in the greatest opacity. And the orphans who remained in the camps whose repatriation I have been requesting for more than three years? France has just been condemned by the ECHR and remains stubborn in its inhumanity,” she added.

"We are moving from a case-by-case policy to that of drawing lots, it is incomprehensible and scandalous", reacted for its part the Collective of United Families, which brings together families of French people who have left for the Iraqi-Syrian zone.

France condemned for not having sufficiently studied repatriation requests

On September 14, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) condemned France for failing to properly study requests for the repatriation of families of jihadists in Syria.

The ECHR had been seized by two French couples who had unsuccessfully asked the French authorities for the repatriation of their daughters, two young women companions of jihadists, and their three children.

On September 14, she urged Paris to re-examine repatriation requests.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs then took note of this decision and said it was ready to "consider" new repatriations "whenever conditions permitted".

On July 5, France brought back 35 minors and 16 mothers from jihadist prison camps in Syria, the first such massive repatriation to France of children and mothers since the fall in 2019 of the "caliphate" of the Islamic State.