Question 6662 — terrorism

Summary

Mr. Maxime Michelet, MP for Marne, questions the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs about the return of families of French jihadists to France. In 2024, grandparents who were members of the “United Families” collective submitted repatriation requests concerning eight women and their twenty-nine children, all of French nationality, currently detained in the Roj camp, located in northeast Syria. These requests had all been rejected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. However, on Thursday March 13, 2025, the Paris administrative court rendered a decision ordering the Minister to respond to each of these requests within two months, giving personal reasons for them. If the conditions of detention of these children, some of whom were born there, can legitimately raise concerns about their return, these cannot hide the security implications that these repatriations could generate for the French population. To date, there are an estimated 131 French adults, 65 men and 66 women, as well as 130 minors currently detained or incarcerated in camps and prisons in Syrian Kurdistan. These individuals knowingly turned their backs on France, going so far as to take up arms against it. Repatriate loved ones members of the “United Families” collective could constitute a precedent paving the way for the reintegration into the national territory of the rest of these individuals. It should be remembered that an individual requested his repatriation, even though he was the voice through which the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the assassination of a couple of police officers in Magnanville in 2016, as well as the attack perpetrated in Nice the same year. According to an IFOP survey carried out in 2018, eight out of ten French people are in favor of abandoning jihadists to their fate. France has mourned its dead enough and it is imperative that it learns lessons, in order to guarantee the security of citizens. He therefore questions him about the criteria and systems for assessing dangerousness that he intends to implement in the context of possible repatriations of families of jihadists.

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