France repatriates 10 children, three mothers from Syria
France has taken in 10 French children and three mothers from north-eastern Syria, officials said on Tuesday.
The minors were handed over to social services, and the women to the judiciary, the French Foreign Ministry said.
Tens of thousands of former Islamic State members and their families are still housed in camps in north-eastern Syria, often in catastrophic humanitarian conditions.
The organisation Collectif des Familles Unies, which brings together relatives of children repatriated from Syria to France, wrote on X that the children and women were taken from the Roj camp, where they had been for seven years.
According to the organisation, this is France’s first repatriation operation in more than two years.
Paris had previously brought children and mothers from the camps to France on several occasions.
(dpa/NAN)
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