The European Court of Human Rights asked France, Wednesday, September 14, to re-examine the requests for repatriation of the families of French jihadists currently stranded in Syria.
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Children of jihadists in Syria “are victims, we must welcome them as soon as possible”, said, Thursday, September 15, on France Inter Charlotte Caubel, Secretary of State for Children. France was condemned on Wednesday by the European Court of Human Rights for not having adequately studied the requests for repatriation of families of jihadists in Syria. While France will have to re-examine these cases, Charlotte Caubel believes that “the children must be repatriated because they did not choose the radicalism of their parents.”
“We are going to take into account the prescriptions of the Court to better listen to the requests of families in France”, adds the Secretary of State for Children. Charlotte Caubel also recalls that “the conditions of repatriation are extremely complex” in Syria.
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“More than 200 children” are welcomed by France, says Charlotte Caubel, “about 75 returned by operation chosen and organized by France”. As far as parents are concerned, the Secretary of State recalls that it is “under the authority of the anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office”. “There are legal conditions that it is not for me to assess.”