(Brussels Times) The state of Belgium has decided to file an appeal against a ruling by a Brussels court on 11 December ordering it to provide 10 children of IS members in Syria with consular assistance and administrative, travel and identity documents for them to be repatriated.
“The state will try to prove that everything has been done to repatriate the children,” the prime minister, Sophie Wilmès, said during a plenary session of the Chamber on Thursday.
According to the ruling, the children need to be repatriated within six weeks, otherwise, the state will face a fine of €5,000 per child for each day that it fails to comply with the court’s order.
The state did not immediately lodge an appeal, but it also did not pay a fine.
