Held in a Syrian camp, a French woman of Moroccan origin and her two children were repatriated on Monday by the French authorities. But she will still have to go through the justice system.
The Brussels resident Fatiha left Syria, which she had joined since 2015, and surrendered to the Belgian authorities last April. During her stay in this war-torn country, she married two fighters with whom she had three children.
An operation carried out in coordination with the Spanish National Intelligence Center (CNI) and with the close collaboration of the Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST) of Morocco, the FBI, the Austrian Security and Intelligence Agency (DSN) and the German and Europol police authorities resulted in the arrest of two Moroccan terrorists returning from Syria.
Morocco is hosting more and more refugees and asylum seekers , according to the latest statistics from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Morocco.
By refusing for years to repatriate French children in danger in Syrian camps, France is violating their right to life and their right not to be subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child said on Thursday.
In Belgium, around fifty fighters who went to Syria or Afghanistan and were also convicted of terrorism - mostly Belgian-Moroccans - have, to date, been deprived of their Belgian nationality.
The families of Moroccans who disappeared overnight to later become jihadist fighters detained in the camps in Syria and Iraq continue to ask the state for help in repatriating them.
Convicted by default in Belgium for terrorism, thirteen fighters - mostly Belgian-Moroccans - who went to Syria or Afghanistan, have been stripped of their Belgian nationality by the Brussels Court of Appeal.
Dozens of relatives of Moroccan jihadists detained in Syria and Iraq demonstrated on Friday in front of the Moroccan parliament in Rabat to demand their repatriation.
A total of 2,577 fighters, including 1,659 Moroccans, were counted in the conflict zones in Iraq and Syria. They had left Morocco to join various terrorist groups active in the region. This is revealed in a report produced by the deputies of the fact-finding mission on Moroccans stranded in Iraq and Syria. There are 290 women and 628 minors.
The Belga agency confirmed on Friday the effective repatriation operation of women and children of jihadists from the Roj camp in northeastern Syria to Belgium . For "reasons of national security", the Belgian authorities had refused to communicate on this repatriation mission of these six wives of jihadists who had joined the terrorist group Islamic State (IS) .
The services of the Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST) helped the Italian security services in charge of terrorism cases to arrest a Moroccan citizen who held positions of responsibility within the terrorist organization Daesh in its traditional strongholds on the Syrian-Iraqi scene.