Escaped with her three children from a camp in Syria, a jihadist wife was expelled Tuesday from Turkey to Paris where she was charged by an anti-terrorist judge and imprisoned, we learned from concordant sources. The woman was indicted for "criminal criminal criminal association" and placed in pre-trial detention, according to a judicial source. Her three children were taken in by Child Welfare.
According to a source familiar with the matter, this woman, born in 1989, was the subject of an arrest warrant, which explains why she was presented directly to an investigating judge. "He is the first person who has just returned from the Al Hol camp" run by the Kurds in north-eastern Syria, from which she was able to escape, said her lawyer, Me Nabil Boudi.
"The care went very well both by the legal services and by social assistance for children," he added, saying that this showed that France was "able to accommodate the women and children who are in camps "in Syria.
Four women indicted last month
Ankara began at the beginning of November to send back to their countries the foreign jihadists detained on its soil, affirming its refusal to "be a hotel for the members of Daesh", the Islamic State group.
In France, the expulsions carried out by Turkey are part of the “Cazeneuve Protocol”, named after the former socialist Minister of the Interior (2014-2016). Signed in 2014, this police cooperation agreement between Paris and Ankara allows jihadists returning from Syria via Turkey to be immediately intercepted upon their return. In December, four women and seven children were thus sent back to France. The four adults were charged.
On January 11, Minister of Justice Nicole Belloubet had caused trouble by raising the possibility of the repatriation of French jihadists detained by the Kurds in Syria. Those around him, however, immediately refuted a break with the official position according to which the jihadists must be tried where they committed their abuses. According to Paris, around 450 French nationals affiliated with Daesh - 150 adults and 300 children - are detained in prison or held in camps in Syria.
