Minister defends deal to bring orphans back from Syria: no change in policy

(Dutch News) Anti-immigration MPs have criticised the government’s decision to bring two orphans, aged two and four, back to the Netherlands from a Syrian camp after their jihadi parents died.

On Monday it emerged that French officials picked up the two Dutch children, who are officially in the care of the Dutch state following a court case by relatives, along with 12 French orphans and brought them back to Paris.

Their mother, a Dutch Muslim convert, died earlier this year and their father, who is [from] Belgium, was killed some time ago.

Foreign minister Stef Blok told MPs on Tuesday that the case was unique and that the decision to bring the children back was done for legal reasons and in the interests of the children.

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