The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) condemned France, Wednesday September 14, for not having studied in an appropriate way the requests for repatriation of families of jihadists from Syria. Requests that Paris will have to re-examine as soon as possible.
For the ECHR, France contravenes one of the articles of the European Convention on Human Rights: no one can be deprived of the right to enter the territory of which he is a national.
According to the Court, the rejection of a request to return to the national territory must be able to be examined by an independent body in order to check its legality. It is precisely on this point that the ECHR condemns France to supervise the decision-making process to avoid any form of arbitrariness.
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Consequently, the Court considers, in its judgment, that the French State must resume the examination of the applicants’ requests as soon as possible, providing it with the necessary guarantees.
The European Court of Human Rights had been seized by two French couples who had unsuccessfully requested the repatriation of their daughters and children. Paris will therefore also have to pay several thousand euros to the two families at the origin of the complaint for compensation.
According to several sources, there are still 106 French women and around 260 minors in Syria.
Paris says it is ready to consider “new repatriations” whenever conditions permit “. ” The government takes note of the decision of the European Court of Human Rights “, indicates the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement, while stressing that France “ did not wait for the judgment of the Court to act “.
It’s a huge relief…
Very good news for the lawyer of certain families, Marie Dosé.
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