Sana will be able to breathe a little. This Friday, October 27, the Lille administrative court suspended the expulsion order to Algeria targeting this young 24-year-old mother, taken against her will to Syria when she was a teenager and then married to a jihadist. Contrary to what the prefect of the North, Georges-François Leclerc, maintained, the magistrates considered that the existence of a serious threat to public order was not proven. They emphasize in particular that the young woman has not been indicted.
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Sana, 24, born in France to Algerian parents, was taken to Syria at the age of 15. She was forced to marry 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.
For the authorities, the young woman, “undocumented”, constitutes a threat. On the contrary, the judges insisted on the fact that Sana helped incriminate several people, including members of her family who voluntarily participated in the actions of the Islamic State. Sana is even civil party in the proceedings against his mother. The expulsion commission of the Lille court issued an opinion unfavorable to the expulsion of this woman on September 25, an opinion therefore confirmed by the administrative court this Friday.
For Marie Dosé, his lawyer, it is a first victory. “ The court ruled in favor of Sana, who also came to the hearing, and who explained her history, her state of mind today, her life, about what she is. I also think that the court was able to understand to what extent this young woman is above all a victim. And besides, it’s strange, the prefect at the hearing said it, he said: ”I don’t deny the fact that Sana is somewhere a victim, but it’s not because… we were a victim, that we are not necessarily a danger”, without supporting any of the assertions he developed in his decree. Sana fought against the ideology of her mother and family throughout her life. I think what saved her was her mother’s hatred of her. She managed not to be recruited. She managed, even in Syria, to resist her mother’s power and ideology. And that’s why she is the only one to have asked to be repatriated to France. »
Marie Dosé hopes that the prefect will definitively abandon this procedure against her client.