These repatriated women had until then been in camps in northeastern Syria and were the subject of an arrest warrant.
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Three of the women repatriated to France from Syria on Thursday October 20, targeted by arrest warrants, were indicted for “criminal terrorist association” and placed in pre-trial detention, franceinfo learned from a judicial source. For two of them, they were indicted, in addition, for “subtraction by a parent from his legal obligations compromising the health, safety, morals or education of his child”.
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These three women, who are part of a group of 15 women and 40 children who were being held in jihadist prison camps in northeastern Syria controlled by Kurdish forces, were the subject of a warrant of stop. The other 12 women “were taken into police custody in execution of a search warrant”. Among them is a 19-year-old young woman who had been taken to the area when she was a minor.
These 15 women are aged between 19 and 42 and of the 40 minors, 7 are orphans or isolated children. The 40 minors are taken care of within the framework of educational assistance procedures “under the responsibility of the public prosecutor’s office at the Versailles judicial court”. The National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office will ensure “centralized monitoring of the minors concerned, in conjunction with the local prosecutor’s offices, parties to the educational assistance procedure”.