This is an appeal launched when the government held its first council of ministers on Monday May 23: several associations including that of the victims of November 13, 13onze15 Fraternité et Vérité, the League of Human Rights and Amnesty International, “solemnly call on France” “to repatriate the French children and their mothers detained in the camps in northeast Syria as soon as possible”.
According to them, there is urgency: some of these French children have been living in these open-air prisons for five years now. In all, there are 200 French children and 80 women locked up in these camps. For sixteen months, France has not repatriated anyone, including the ten orphans left to fend for themselves. Families are calling for a little political courage for this second term of President Emmanuel Macron, who has placed his five-year term under the sign of child protection.
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Suzanne still has a little hope. She has her four grandchildren, over there, in Syria: “We hope that with this new five-year term it will be very fast, she explains. Five years is too long, we must stop this carnage…” “These children have lost four years of their childhood and now we have to give them back, we have to rebuild them right away,” she insists. Isma is waiting for the return of her six-year-old nephew:
“It’s hard to give them explanations. When my nephew asks when the plane will pick him up, and he sees his friends returning and not him, he understands even less…”
“The situation will not be stable for decades, says Marie Dosé, the lawyer for the Collective of United Families association, which is calling for the repatriation from Syria of these children of jihadists and their mothers. Should we wait until these children are 30 or 40? Germany, Belgium or even Sweden are not waiting and France is becoming more and more isolated. It is the only European country which was condemned in February by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, but that has not changed anything: France must respect international commitments. This decision belongs to Emmanuel Macron…”
“Emmanuel Macron cannot be the one who will let 200 French children perish in these camps, just as he cannot remain the president of a France condemned for having violated the international convention on the rights of the child. our country.”
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This fight unites more and more people: Bruno Solo, writers like Marie Desplechin, the humorist Sophia Aram, the associations of victims of November 13, Fenvac. Marie-Claude Desjeux, its president, initially had to think against herself. “What is always difficult is to have somewhat political positionsshe believes. They are children, victims of war, they are hostages, and our country does not respect the price commitments. In the end, we are a country that does not respect the commitments of international conventions. These 200 children must return. “ The associations ask to be received by the President of the Republic and recall that “to give up” these children in the camps will contribute to “manufacturing radicalization”.