France is summoned by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to guarantee "access to medical care" to a 32-year-old French woman detained in Kurdish jails in northeastern Syria.
A. Descamps, a prisoner with her four children and dozens of other French women arrested after the fall of the Islamic State (IS) group, suffers from colon cancer, her mother, Pascale Descamps, and her parents told AFP. lawyers.
Faced with the deterioration of his state of health, the latter seized last November the committee against torture of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, based in Geneva, to ask Paris for the repatriate to France with their children for medical reasons.
In its response dated December 14, if it does not explicitly ask France to repatriate her, the High Commission nevertheless requires, "in view of the information available" on her state of health, to "take the necessary consular measures" to “ensure (his) integrity”.
"All the information that reaches us, including from the camp authorities, confirms that she is in serious condition, exhausted by this fatal disease," abounds a lawyer for Ms. Descamps, Marie Dosé, stressing that another French in the camp, "diabetic", is also "in a worrying state".
Left to join her husband in 2015
“I call on Emmanuel Macron and Jean-Yves Le Drian to show humanity.
I don't want my daughter to die like a beast in Syria under the eyes of her children, ”she declared last November to Le Parisien.
Originally from Pas-de-Calais, the young woman flew to Syria in 2015 with her first husband, who has since died.
She lived in one of the last areas controlled by Daesh, on the borders of Syria and Iraq, before joining Al-Hol camp two years ago and then Roj camp, still with her children.
Charged in Paris, she is officially targeted by an international arrest warrant.
Except that the French authorities have so far shown no desire to repatriate the women and children of jihadists.
An eminently sensitive subject on the political level.
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About 80 French women and nearly 200 children live in precarious tent camps in northeastern Syria.
Their relatives, supported by NGOs and certain international bodies such as the Council of Europe, call on France to repatriate them.
Paris, which says it follows a "case by case" policy, has so far repatriated in small groups 35 of these French children - orphans or whose mothers have agreed to separate - since March 2019.
