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Near Baghouz (Syria) (AFP) - Two French women who fled the Islamic State group's last pocket in Syria told AFP on Monday more foreigners were trapped inside, barred from leaving by Iraqi jihadists.
The Muslim converts said they paid smugglers to take them out of the battered IS-held holdout of Baghouz to territory held by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces.
They said "massacres" had taken place in Baghouz, where others are still trapped with "nothing to eat".
"There are many French, many muhajireen (foreigners who joined IS) and others who are trying to leave but they (IS) don't let us," said one.
"They said only the Syrians and Iraqis can be smuggled out," said the woman, who said her first name was Christelle, from the city of Bordeaux.
She spoke to AFP from the back of a pickup truck packed with women and wailing children who would be taken to Kurdish-run prison camps in northern Syria.
Her two children, one and three, were laying on her lap, but she said her husband had died.
"What do I ask the French government? Just let me keep my kids. I just want my kids," she said.
France has said it is considering repatriating around 130 of its nationals currently held by Kurdish authorities in Syria, but Christelle was not keen to go home.
"I would prefer to return to a different country where there is more Islam. We can't practise our religion (fully) in France," she said.
Like everyone else in the truck, Christelle kept her black veil on but her skeletal, dirty hands were visible. She wore a cheap-looking silver ring.
She told AFP that she converted to Islam and entered Syria in 2014 "for religion".
Initially happy under the group, she now felt "tricked".
"Propaganda. 'Come to us, look at this beautiful life.' We were robbed," she said.
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"Tricked"
Ne razumem kako mogu sami verovati svojim izgovorima.
ISIS postavlja snimke na kojima pali zive ljude, davi ih u kavezima, vrsi masovna streljanja, prodaje zene u roblje i slicne grozote.
"Ah, mislim da je ovo pravo mesto da odem i osnujem porodicu i odgajam decu"
