One of the French women repatriated from the jihadist prison camps in Syria at the beginning of July filed a complaint against her conditions of detention in Sequedin (North), not having been placed in a medical unit while she is suffering from colon cancer, his lawyer told AFP on Friday July 22.
The 34-year-old woman filed a complaint on Monday against X with the Lille public prosecutor for "
refusal to act to put an end to a detention that is known to be illegal
" and "
deliberate endangerment of the lives of others
", Me Emmanuel Daoud told AFP.
When the complaint was filed on Monday, "
she was in ordinary detention conditions and her health was threatened
", he added.
According to the lawyer, a doctor responsible for assessing whether his state of health was compatible with detention considered that his “
current disorders
” were “
incompatible with ordinary detention
”.
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Since the filing of the complaint, the mother of four children has however been admitted to a UHSI (interregional secure hospital unit) on July 20, the Ministry of Justice told AFP on Friday, without giving further details due of medical secrecy.
According to the Ministry of Justice, on which the prison administration depends, she had "
been examined by a doctor as soon as she arrived
", and the latter had then considered that her care in ordinary detention "
was appropriate
", and a placement in UHSI “
not necessary
”.
Two surgical operations in Syria
The detainee, repatriated on July 5 to France from the Kurdish camp of Roj, in northeastern Syria, with her children, was indicted on July 6 for criminal terrorist association and "
material or moral abandonment of a minor by ascendant
”, and imprisoned at Sequedin.
A total of 16 women and 35 minors, some of whom had been living since the fall of the Islamic State (IS) group in 2019 in camps in northeastern Syria, were then brought back to France.
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The complainant had left France in 2015 after converting to Islam, with her first three children and her jihadist companion, who was killed.
Her second husband, another ISIS member, also died.
During her detention in Syria, she underwent, according to her lawyer, two surgeries to treat her cancer.
Her mother had implored President Emmanuel Macron in June to repatriate her, calling on her "
humanity
".
