2023-08-13 21:42:44
Men suspected of being affiliated with the Islamic State group are incarcerated in a prison in the city of Hasakeh, northeastern Syria, on October 26, 2019. FADEL SENNA/AFP
INVESTIGATION – They are 300 with their families to be watched by an Islamist group in search of rehabilitation. A handful would have been discreetly handed over to France.
In northwestern Syria, where the war is frozen, several foreign jihadists – including some French – are said to have been handed over by an Islamist rebel group to the Turkish intelligence services, which transferred them to their country of origin. They are concerned about the threat that these foreign fighters pose to their internal security. But like France, they still do not want to recover them, en masse, and prefer to remain discreet in the face of a sensitive subject in public opinion.
According to several press leaks, the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which controls the northwestern province of Idlib, has in recent weeks handed over eight foreign fighters to Turkish intelligence – including two French – during three transfers, via the Bab al-Hawa crossing point on the border between Syria and Turkey.
Last Tuesday, according to the Syrian news agency North Press, the Frenchman Abou Fatima al-Faransi was thus handed over…
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