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French MPs turned away from a refugee camp in Syria

2021-03-02T18:52:32.871Z


French parliamentarians traveling to Syria have been refused access to refugee camps in which French nationals are detained in particular and accuse, in a press release, pressure directly from Paris. Read also: Washington demands information on detainees in Syria " It is with great disappointment that our delegation which had crossed the Syrian border was refused to continue its movement on the


French parliamentarians traveling to Syria have been refused access to refugee camps in which French nationals are detained in particular and accuse, in a press release, pressure directly from Paris.

Read also: Washington demands information on detainees in Syria

"

It is with great disappointment that our delegation which had crossed the Syrian border was refused to continue its movement on the territory of Rojava by the Kurdish authorities of Syria

", write the deputies Frédérique Dumas and Hubert Julien-Laferrière and MEPs Sylvie Guillaume and Mounir Satouri.

Other delegations from Belgium, Finland, Germany, Austria and the Spanish region of Catalonia "

have been able to travel to Rojava in recent weeks and for the most part access the camps

", they continue.

"

Our discussions on the spot allow us to affirm that this refusal is due to direct pressure from the French authorities

".

Contacted by AFP, the Kurdish authorities did not comment.

Some French organizations and political figures plead for the repatriation to France of jihadists detained in Kurdish camps and their families.

But Paris maintains a case-by-case return policy for these children - 35, mostly orphans, have been repatriated so far - and considers that the adults should be tried on the spot.

"

The situation in the camps where European nationals are detained, many of whom are French, is explosive

", note the left and center-left parliamentarians, also accompanied by lawyers.

Referring to the fate of children, they

urge

"

urgent measures to be taken to ensure that their physical, emotional and moral security is ensured while respecting the European principle of the best interests of the child

".

Read also: Children detained in Syria: a deputy and a senator denounce the "cowardice" of France

Al-Hol's camp alone, the largest in Syria, hosts nearly 62,000 people, more than 80% of whom are women and children.

It has known in two weeks 12 murders of displaced Syrians and Iraqis, reported the UN last month, sounding the alarm on "

an increasingly untenable security environment

".

Several escapes also took place.

Some 80 French women, who had joined ISIS, and 200 children are held in all of these camps.

In December, two lawyers commissioned by the President of the Bar of Paris and the NGO Avocats Sans Frontières had already attempted a similar operation without more success.

They accused the Consulate General of France in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, of being responsible for their failure.

Source: lefigaro

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