“It has not been established that the presence” of this 24-year-old young woman “on national territory constitutes a serious threat to public order,” considers the expulsion commission of the Lille court. This Wednesday, this commission thus issued an unfavorable opinion on the return to Algeria, at the initiative of the prefect of the North, of a Roubaisienne who had left as a minor in Syria with her family and returned to France with her two daughters.
“The fact that she lived in a terrorist zone surrounded by jihadists advocating rigorous Islam does not allow us to deduce with certainty that she is committed to this cause and that she intends to in turn commit terrorist acts », Explains the commission in its opinion. An advisory opinion for the prefect of the North, Georges-François Leclerc, who retains the power to expel the young woman.
Twenty-three members of his family belong to ISIS
His lawyer, Me Marie Dosé, welcomed a “conclusive” decision, which “should convince” the prefect “not to pursue the expulsion procedure envisaged against Sana (assumed name) and her two daughters”. His client, never indicted, belongs to “one of the largest French jihadist families”, 23 members of which joined the Islamic State (IS) organization, the prefect underlined during the hearing on September 13. His uncle, one of the eleven French people sentenced to death in Iraq in 2019, is known to intelligence for his links with Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the coordinator of the attacks of November 13, 2015.
The young woman, who says she is the victim of a tyrannical and radicalized family, was taken to an area under the control of ISIS by her mother in 2014, at the age of 15, with her siblings. She was then married to a Belgian jihadist, with whom she had two daughters.
Born in France but without nationality
Back in France, after five years there, then four years in a jihadist prison camp, she hopes to stay in France, her country of birth, although she does not have nationality. Her mother refused to ask her when she was a teenager, making her today an illegal Algerian national. According to her lawyer, she has never been to Algeria.
For his part, the prefect considers that the young woman is in “a process of concealment”, or “taqiya”, and criticizes her in particular for certain responses that he considers ambiguous during her hearings with the DGSI upon her return to France.