The mother of one of the Spanish women married to jihadists: "Are they going to be sentenced for going after their husbands?"

• Courts Prison for terrorism for the two wives of jihadists repatriated from Syria

• Islamism The Madrid-born girl from the Salamanca neighborhood who ended up in the IS Caliphate with four children

"Are they going to condemn them for being deluded and stupid? For going after their husbands or for taking care of the children?"

asked the mother of

, one of the two Spanish women wives of jihadists, repatriated together with the 13 minors in their charge and whom the judge of the National Court

has sent to prison for integration into the

(IS).

Manuela Grande

, Luna's mother, cannot hold back her tears when she recounts the hardships her daughter has suffered in the four years she has been held in a prison camp in Syria.

She left in 2014 with her husband and she has returned to Spain as a widow and with five children from her marriage and four other orphaned minors in her care.

"My daughter tried to leave her husband and come with the children," he assured at the press conference offered by the relatives of these two women together with the lawyer for both

and the MEP

, who informed the EU the situation in which they and their children found themselves in the face of the passivity of the Spanish Government.

"I think Luna and Yolanda are good people, but the public has qualified them without knowing what they are like."

"I don't know how they can condemn two women who are housewives," Yolanda Martínez's mother also lamented through tears, who recounted that her daughter, who grew up in the prestigious Salamanca neighborhood of Madrid and who went to a religious school, has always cared for others.

Nart, for his part, has been especially critical of the actions of the Spanish Government in this operation, which has denied that it was of particular complexity and believes that what has been lacking is will, in addition to considering that the Executive has not respected the rights over these years of childhood nor has he fulfilled his consular duties.

As he has recounted, the first to know about this situation was the former Foreign Minister

in 2019 but when he went to the EU "he forgot".

They then went to his successor,

, who "did not respond," nor did they receive an answer, he said, from the ministers Félix Bolaños and Fernando Grande-Marlaska.

The only one who listened to them, he continued, was the current Foreign Minister José Luis Albares, whose human quality Nart has highlighted, while he has despised those "experts" who advised rejecting repatriations given the potential danger of minors.

"What did they plan to keep these children in an outsourced Guantanamo for the rest of their lives?"

Nart has wondered, who believes that the minors should have left there 4 years ago because the more time passed, the more likely there was that they would become radicalized.

For Nart it was imperative to rescue these children because if they return at 18, 20 or 21 years old "they have all the reasons in the world to hate a government and a society that has abandoned them."

Two other Spanish women

The lawyer representing these families has also recalled that there are still two other Spanish women to be repatriated and their respective children and has announced that they will continue working to bring them to Spain.

's minor protection team

for the treatment they are giving to children and grandparents, who this Thursday were able to reunite with their grandchildren.

At the moment, the children are undergoing the necessary tests to prove their affiliations, and once their situation is legalized, the social services will have to assess who is the closest relative and if they are in a position to receive the minor.

With respect to orphans, it will be seen if a temporary foster care is granted.

However, if it is finally proven that their mothers do not have criminal responsibility, they will be able to be with their children, the lawyer has advanced, who has announced that he will appeal the imprisonment of both, considering the accusation of the judge "absurd", who considers them members of the Daesh for their role as wives of Islamic State fighters.

"They come to state that the fact of being at home taking care of their children is part of Daesh's strategy and therefore they belong to Daesh. If they have not had any type of activity, no matter how much their husbands did, they have nothing to do with them. Considering them members of a terrorist organization for having children seems completely absurd to me," he lamented.

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