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Children of Daesh: “They were abandoned”, assures Hélène Lam Trong, 39th Albert Londres audiovisual prize
Hélène Lam Trong won the 39th Albert Londres Prize in the audiovisual category for her documentary “Daesh, the Phantom Children”. She is the guest of 12/13 info, Thursday November 30. – (franceinfo)
Hélène Lam Trong won the 39th Albert Londres Prize in the audiovisual category for her documentary “Daesh, the Phantom Children”. She is the guest of 12/13 info, Thursday November 30.
For Hélène Lam Trong, journalist, winner of the 39e Albert Londres audiovisual prize for his documentary Daesh, the ghost childrenFrance chose to act as if the children of Daesh did not exist. “The particularity of Daesh is that it relied on children to instill fear”explains the guest of 12/13 info, Thursday November 30. “We associate them with potential terrorists, we no longer see the children”, she adds. No mobilization is organized. “They were abandoned”deplores the journalist, who, in her documentary, interviews a 14-year-old girl.
“We are trampling on our principles”
She was taken by her parents in CE2 and was repatriated to France after years of mobilization. “If it had been repatriated immediately after the war, the work to rebuild it would have been much less heavy”, assures Hélène Lam Trong. Some children were called “time bombs” because they are considered dangerous. “Because it is Daesh, we are trampling on our most fundamental principles. (…) Keeping children in detention is prohibited by international law”such as depriving them of school and not helping them, concludes the journalist.
