France has ruled out repatriating jihadists and their families from Syria following furious backlash at reports 250 of them would be allowed to return. Interior Minister Christophe Castaner told a press conference in Paris on Friday: 'No communal repatriation was under consideration to be carried out.' It had been reported that in early March the government was prepared to bring home around 250 men, women and children from the former 'caliphate,' which brought widespread public backlash. However, he reiterated that France would nonetheless study bringing back children of jihadist fighters on a 'case-by-case basis'. Last month, French authorities for the first time brought home five orphaned children of French jihadists' from camps in northeast Syria.

Source: Daily Mail April 05, 2019 14:37 UTC