(Radio France) Three French children living in an orphanage in Damascus could be repatriated to France now that the regime has changed in Syria. An RFI investigation has identified the children as orphans of jihadists who were killed during the international coalition’s bombing of the Islamic State armed group.
Three children, aged six, 11 and 12, have been living since 2019 in an orphanage in Damascus, whose director was prohibited from having direct contact with their family in France by the regime of [Bashar] al-Assad.
With the change in regime, there is hope that the children could be brought to France.
“Before she died, the mother had contacts with the [children’s] aunt, but I was not allowed to have any [contact],” the director of the orphanage, who asked to remain anonymous, told RFI.
