[ April 26, 2024 ]
France would intervene if jihadis are sentenced to death. Many want the jihadis returned to France. France seems to have a suicidal desire to keep these jihadis alive, and even in France, and a strange sense of responsibility for them. They may be French citizens, but if they have gone to fight for ISIS, they do not consider themselves French, and are not French in any genuine sense. The French government is looking out for the welfare of people who would destroy it if they got the chance.
“If French jihadists are sentenced to death, France will intervene,” translated from “Si des djihadistes français sont condamnés à mort, la France interviendra,” translated from Le Figaro, January 28, 2018 (thanks to Alexandre):
In the event that a French national was sentenced to death in Syria or Iraq, “the French State would intervene, by negotiating with the State in question (…) on a case by case basis,” said the Keeper of the Seals.
Story continues below advertisementSunday. This is an issue that has been debated for several months. What to do with the French gone to Syria and Iraq to join a terrorist group and who are now locked up there? Should they be repatriated or tried on the spot? And above all, what if they are sentenced to death? For the first time, the Minister of Justice answered this question Sunday: yes, France would react if one or more French jihadists were sentenced to death in Iraq or Syria, said Nicole Belloubet during the “Grand Jury” RTL- LCI-Le Figaro.
“The French state would intervene, by negotiating with the state in question, and again it would be a case by case treatment,” said the Minister of Justice.
The question is all the more important since the convictions began to be pronounced in Iraq. On 21 January, the Baghdad Criminal Court sentenced a German national of Moroccan origin to death by hanging for belonging to the Islamic State (IS) group.
A French woman is currently awaiting trial in Iraq. Differences by country In November 2017, the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian, stated the position of France: the French fighters were to be tried in Iraq, a sovereign state whose judicial authority is recognized by France. As for women and children, the executive said that situations would be evaluated “on a case-by-case basis”.
Then, the speech was a little more precise. In January, the Keeper of the Seals came up with the idea of a possible return of women parties to jihad. “If the rules of fair trial are not respected locally, we have international conventions on which we are very eyebrow and so we will support them in France,” she said.
The situation is however different from one country to another. “With Turkey, we have agreements that are clear and allow us to bring people back, with Iraq, it is a state that is recognized as such and so of course the French who are there can be judged by the Iraqi state, “explained the Keeper of the Seals this Sunday. “Syria is a bit more complicated because the state is not recognized as such, and of course it’s a case-by-case treatment,” she said, reiterating a position that fails to hide the embarrassment of the French executive.
The treatment of suspected French jihadists in Iraq and Syria is a thorny issue, which is far from unanimous in the government. Witness the words of the Minister of Armies Florence Parly, who sparked controversy in October by implicitly endorsing the elimination of French jihadists in Iraq and Syria. On Monday, she maintained this speech, adding that she had no “moods” about French jihadists.
Questioned this Sunday about the comments of his colleague, the Minister of Justice thinks that there is “no difference in analysis” between them. “I think it’s important for the government to have a policy on it that is clear and shared by all,” said the Keeper of the Seals. “I repeat, like my colleague Parly, that these people voluntarily went to fight alongside Daesh and therefore they have a responsibility and a choice,” she said. “But as Minister of Justice, I can not say anything other than my commitment to the rules of fair trial,” she said.
676 French on Iraqi-Syrian zone “Today, the war is coming to an end, but we are still in this total confusion at the institutional level about these people who have gone to jihad,” commented recently on a specialist in the Syrian-Iraqi zone at Le Figaro. “France gives the impression of not wanting to recover them, both because of the problem of legal overcrowding and the bad image that a possible assistance to jihadists would give.”
At present, several civil society actors, including the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH), plead for possible repatriation for these women and men to be tried in France. Lawyers, whose clients are currently in the zone, believe that “everything must be done to facilitate their repatriation, in accordance with France’s international commitments”.
Recently, four lawyers, who felt that their clients were being arbitrarily detained, filed a complaint to urge the state to take a stand on their fate. According to the prosecutor of the Republic of Paris, François M…
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11 Comments
6 years ago
French authorities are ready to ‘fight’ for Islamic terrorist fighting abroad,… but NOT their own citizens?!!
Any French citizen showing dissatisfaction with French authority or Islam,… is targeted as Islamophobic and racist !!
6 years ago
I cut and pasted this to FB, rather than using the URL. Let’s see what happens.
6 years ago
This is Another proof of Left/liberal stupidity !
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Pssst …don’t share the article before they experience the cultural diversity of the foods served !
6 years ago
Are they keeping list of their “French citizens” fighting in Syria? Did they open previously French embassy in Raqqa (ISIS’ capitol) to “represent” them and now, after ISIS lost territories, embassies in Damascus and Baghdad have special divisions to represent them? M. Macron: Who represents VICTIMS of their jihad?
6 years ago
france is totally incapable of interviewing ins its internal business, how does it think it will ever accomplish anything on the international scene? Unless, in typical french fashion, the intervention will consist of a vaguely written email implying alternate actions for the case in question.
6 years ago
The French political establishment is set upon a course of giving its political enemies more and more rope on these issue of lenient treatment for French based terrorists until one day, Front National will give that rope one sharp tug and the Macron twit will find it’s his head in the noose not Le Penn’s.
The electorate will react eventually and when the dam does break, well look out, all the pent up fury of the silent ones will be released.
6 years ago
France is ridiculous! Jihadis want them dead. What part of that don’t they get?
6 years ago
France is a gonner. Fight for Islam while it eats you. Buck a Christian 100% disabled Vietnam veteran ??⚔?? right wing republican life time member NRA and friend to Israel
6 years ago
Send in the drones, these traitors were prepared to die for their so called ” god “, so let’s help them.
6 years ago
It’s unfathomable!
6 years ago
How horrifying, and the French were the ones who saved Europe once from Islamic invasion at the Battle of Tours. Apparently their standards have fallen low indeed. 🙁
