In Lille, where the court’s expulsion commission was looking into the case of a young woman who returned from Syria on September 13. This is the case of a “revenant”, as they say, who had been forcibly married to a jihadist in Syria, and whom France wants to expel. Sana, 24, born in France to Algerian parents, was taken to Syria at the age of 15. She was forced into marriage there and was finally repatriated last January with her two daughters aged 5 and 7. But she does not have French nationality. Her mother, radicalized, always refused to take steps to obtain it. However, for the authorities, the young woman, “undocumented”, constitutes a threat.
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With RFI’s special correspondent at the Lille court, Marine de la Moissonnière
The prefect of the North does not budge: Sana is dangerous. First of all, there are his statements to investigators upon his return. She does not sufficiently condemn the barbaric acts of the Islamic State group. Worse, she laughs when talking about a beheading. Laughter which punctuates all her hearings, whether she talks about her tyrannical mother, the bombings or the rapes, retorts the young woman’s lawyer.
Humor, adefense mechanism” For “put away” THE “world of hate» that she went through. Moreover, Sana has never been indicted, not even placed under the status of assisted witness, insists Maître Dosé. She stays “judicialized“, persists the prefect, “it interests German justice“. Yes, a German judge heard it “as a witness», Corrects Marie Dosé. She also collaborates with the intelligence services who regularly question her about the journey of this or that person in Syria.
I still remind you that Sana was repatriated with her two little daughters, that she is a civil party against her mother, that she has been informing the DGSI services since her arrival on French territory, that she is taken care of by educators, by professionals, and none of these dozens of speakers highlighted, or highlighted, a single so-called threat that this young woman represents. The prefect is incapable of producing a single piece, and from the beginning. I was expecting a blank note this morning. A blank note is a note from the intelligence services, neither dated nor signed, which explains to you how dangerous it is. But they weren’t even able to do that. They have absolutely nothing in their hands, it’s an obstinacy that looks a bit like zeal. It’s perhaps a bit of a stupid stubbornness.
She is even a civil party in the proceedings against her mother. The prefect finally puts forward the testimony of an educator from the deradicalization association who follows Sana and who treats her as “confabulator“. In the public, its director denies it. The prefect, who has no written proof, maintains what he says.
The expulsion commission of the Lille court will deliver its opinion on September 27, an opinion that the prefect of the North is not obliged to follow.
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