(AFP) A supreme legal tribunal in France on Tuesday rejected appeals by families for their relatives who had gone to Syria to join the Islamic State (IS) radical militant group to return home.
The Council of State, which acts as legal adviser to the French government and top arbiter of administrative cases, said it did not have jurisdiction to decide the matter.
After looking at four such requests on appeal it ruled that such a move would require “negotiations with foreign authorities or an intervention on foreign soil,” which was beyond its remit.
France and other European nations have been wrestling with how to handle the hundreds of foreign fighters and their families, many of whom are being held in camps by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces which led the final push against IS in Syria.
