This is information from the French newspaper Release. The UN Committee against Torture condemns France for not having repatriated dozens of French families detained in Kurdish camps in Syria, families formerly affiliated with the Islamic State. One more blame for the French state in this case.
France does not take effective measures to prevent acts of torture from being committed against its nationals “. This is basically what the UN Committee against Torture considers. The living conditions in the prison camps reserved by the Kurds for the families of former Daesh fighters are defined as torture. Live there, without water, without heating, without electricity for the fourth winter in a row, more than 150 French children and their mothers, reports our correspondent in Iraqi Kurdistan, Theo Renaudon.
A decision that comes on top of others. In recent months, the European court of human rights and the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child have also condemned France to repatriate these nationals. The Syrian Kurds themselves want France to take back these prisoners.
” France is cornered »
For its part, the State claims to have stopped its case-by-case policy since this summer and the repatriation of 50 children and their mothers. ” France is cornered: it will repatriate. The only problem is the time it takes to do it “, denounces the lawyer of the families. ” She took four to five years to start repatriating, and four to five years is quite a childhood. A sacrificed childhood “, is indignant master Marie Dosé.
The decision of this UN body is not binding, but France is invited to send it the decisions taken. to follow up on (his) observations » within 90 days.