France Tuesday repatriated 15 women and 32 children held in a prison camp for suspected jihadists in Syria, the foreign ministry said, in the third major return of French citizens from the country.
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Instead it said individual cases would be examined, leading to the first group repatriation of 16 mothers and 35 children from Syria in July 2022, and a further 55 in October. Lawyer Marie Dose, who represents relatives of those held in several camps in Syria, has said 150 French women and children were living in these camps before Tuesday’s transfer.
Dose said the latest arrivals showed that “France is, and always has been, able to repatriate children and their mothers”. “It’s snowing in Syria. Some children are sleeping in tents,” he said. “They must urgently all be repatriated.”In the past decade, thousands of extremists in Europe travelled to Syria to become IS fighters, often taking their families to live in the “caliphate” the group set up in territory seized in Iraq and Syria.
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