(AFP) France has repatriated 40 children and 15 women from camps in Syria holding family members of suspected Islamic State jihadists, the foreign ministry said on Thursday.
It marked the largest such repatriation in three months and came a week after a European rights court condemned France over its refusal to bring back two women detained in Syria.
“The minors have been transferred to child aid services,” the ministry said in a statement. “The adults have been handed to judicial authorities.”
After questioning, three of the women who had been the target of arrest warrants were charged with associating with terrorists and taken into custody, a judicial source said later on Thursday.
