Overview

• Two of the three returned women were placed in custody and a third, under an arrest warrant, is to be presented to an investigating judge, the antiterror prosecutor said.
• The minors were placed in child‑protection procedures under the Versailles prosecutor, with centralized follow‑up coordinated by the antiterror office.
• The foreign ministry thanked the transitional Syrian authorities and the local administration in north‑east Syria for enabling the mission.
• Roughly 110–120 French children and about fifty women remain in the camps, which Kurdish authorities plan to clear with the UN by the end of 2025.
• Repatriations had been paused since summer 2023 over on‑site risks; families expressed relief while Marine Le Pen condemned the move as a security risk, and totals since 2019 now stand at 179 children and 60 women returned.