The state will not ultimately repatriate French jihadists detained in Iraq, as Darmanin – Liberation said
The Minister corrected by his entourage. « There is no repatriation announcement » French jihadists detained in Iraq, specifies on Saturday at AFP the entourage of Gérald Darmanin, returning to remarks of the Minister of Justice published Friday evening in La Voix du Nord.
During an interview organized between the minister and readers of the regional daily, one of them had asked the Minister if the State was going to repatriate three northerners detained in Iraq, sentenced to death and then to life prison.
« Yes, as is the case for many French prisoners in the world, in Iran or elsewhere. Nationals must finish their prison sentence in France ”, had then replied the Keeper of the Seals. What to invite those around him to specify the northern thought, who did not want to express himself on « Special cases ». « There is no repatriation announcement », Nuance on Saturday those around him at AFP.
« The Minister only specified that in general, French prisoners abroad are intended to return to purge their sentence in France and that foreigners detained in France are intended to purge their sentence abroad, without specifying the modality of delay », continued this same source, which recalls that these files are « The competence of the Quai d’Orsay ».
A size shade, indeed, because Gérald Darmanin had judged well during this interview that “Nationals must finish their prison sentence in France. I believe that we cannot ask Algeria, Morocco or the United States to resume their nationals affected by an OQTF and refuse to bring back the French detainees abroad ”. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs had not immediately responded to AFP requests to react to the words of Gérald Darmanin.
« The words of the Keeper of the Seals are going in the right direction but it remains to transform them into acts, and quickly »had commented to AFP Marie Dosé, the lawyer of Djamila Boutoutaouwho received 20 years in criminal imprisonment in Iraq in April 2018. Her client « Is seriously ill and must be repatriated urgently »insisted me dosed, stressing having « Solicited his transfer repeatedly, in vain ».
Of « Many reasons » Justify the transfer of these detainees, abounded Me Richard Sédillot, who defends three French jihadists condemned in Iraq, including the northern Vianney Ouraghi. Their « Reintegration » is then « Much easier to organize »with in particular the visit of their loved ones, he argued. « Their presence in France also allows French magistrates to hear them »while these people are targeted by other current surveys in Paris, he noted.
Me Sédillot also underlined the « Unworthy conditions » detention of his clients, while an investigating judge is currently investigating from Paris to suspicions of torture out of six French people convicted and detained in Baghdad.
Update with the declarations of the entourage of Gérald Darmanin
