The French government wants to expel foreigners who commit serious crimes, says Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin in an interview with Le Monde newspaper published online this Saturday.
Currently, the expulsion of foreign criminals is limited by certain legal conditions, including that the person has arrived in France before the age of thirteen, recalls the minister.
The government’s objective is “to allow the expulsion of any foreigner found guilty by the courts of a serious act, regardless of their situation in the national territory,” he said.
Darmanin noted that 2,761 foreign criminals have been expelled since he took office just two years ago, which is 60% more than in the same preceding period. “A foreigner who does not respect the laws of the Republic must be expelled,” he stressed.
Even so, he insisted that the Government is committed to reception and integration, also the responsibility of his ministry, and on which he recognizes that “several things need to be improved”.
“We consider foreigners for what they do, not for what they are, unlike the RN”, the far-right party led by Marine Le Pen, summed up the French Minister of the Interior.
France repatriated 35 minors and 16 mothers from Kurdish-run jihadist prison camps in northeastern Syria on Tuesday.
Darmain assured that “very important supplementary means” have been arranged to monitor these people and prevent them from being a danger to national security.
As the authorities had advanced, eight of those mothers were formally indicted this Friday by a court of instruction for an association of criminals with terrorist purposes and one of the minors, who turned 18 yesterday, was placed under judicial control, the press reports today. local.
According to the Paris authorities, some 250 minors and a hundred mothers of French nationality are still in Syrian camps controlled by Syrian rebels.
Their fathers and husbands were jihadist fighters who went to Syria and Iraq to fight with the Islamic State and many died, although some are imprisoned in those countries, while their families were interned in camps where the humanitarian situation is dire, according to various NGOs. and the French families, who request the repatriation of the minors.
