” Until the end, the initiative remained secret, point The Parisian. Yesterday [5 juillet, NDLR], the Quai d’Orsay has announced that it has repatriated 51 people held in Kurdish camps in northeastern Syria. It is the most massive operation ever carried out since the fall of the Islamic State in 2019. But the main novelty, picks up the newspaper, is that, for the first time, France has decided to repatriate adults from the camps. Of the 51 people who landed at Vélizy-Villacoublay airport yesterday, 16 are women. The other 35 are minors, including 7 unaccompanied children. This decision is akin to a political turning point, France has so far applied the case-by-case doctrine for minors and refused to return mothers. The situation of all these jihadist women, aged 22 to 39, was taken to court, notice again The Parisian. Eight of them were the subject of an arrest warrant. Seven were immediately brought before an investigating judge and placed in protective custody. »
Preserving what makes us human
The daily The cross welcomes this repatriation: “ for democracies, the fight against terrorism is not only about saving lives, but about trying to preserve what makes us human. In this regard, respect for human rights is not an option, let alone an admission of weakness. It is in this sense that the announcement of repatriation should be welcomed. (…) In this case, there has been much debate about the long-term risks, still falls The cross. In fact, among the women repatriated yesterday, at least one is considered an active member of Daesh. She will be judged. We also know how complex the reintegration of children confronted with atrocities and potentially indoctrinated is. They will be accompanied. These reservations, apparently legitimate, do not hold for whoever chooses to place the principle of humanity above the precautionary principle. This involves accepting some risk. The part that distinguishes civilized societies from the totalitarian logic of terrorism “.
Facing your own failure
” A necessary repatriation », add The Latest News from Alsace. “ While Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands or Germany decided to repatriate all of their nationals, France braced itself on a policy “case by case”, to the point of being singled out by human rights organisations. Marking a break (therefore), this first massive repatriation comes after the electoral deadlines and the trial of the attacks of November 13, also before a possible condemnation by the European Court of Human Rights. “.
Admittedly, the Alsatian daily still points out, “ justice must be rendered and the State must provide the means to the security services to guarantee the monitoring of these soldiers of Allah. But this repatriation also forces the country to face up to its own failure, that of having abandoned part of its youth to merchants of hate. Extracting child victims of jihad from Syrian camps is a first step in restoring the dignity of the Republic “.
Will the Borne government be able to break the mistrust of the French?
Also on the front page, the baptism of fire in front of the deputies for Elisabeth Borne this Wednesday, July 6.
” The serious things begin, exclaims Release. Emmanuel Macron met yesterday with a restricted government council to discuss the fight for purchasing power, a highly anticipated subject which will be at the heart of Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne’s general policy speech this Wednesday. »
Opinion wonders: ” Failing to solicit the confidence of the deputies, will Elisabeth Borne manage to break the distrust of the French? If the purchasing power law has test value, it is primarily on the ability of the Prime Minister to respond to the number one concern of the population, with consistency and efficiency. »
More broadly, will this government be able to meet the expectations of the French? The world hardly believes in it who describes the new team as “ bloated and breathless “: ” centered on the known allies of Emmanuel Macron, this government seems to lack vision at the dawn of a legislature which promises to be complicated, says the evening paper. (…) Withdrawn into its square meadow, too isolated to dare to demand a vote of confidence in the National Assembly, the new team now has only one word in its mouth, the“stock”, to try to contain the very political game of the oppositions. Rarely, under the Fifth Republic, has a government appeared so disarmed at the dawn of a new legislature “.