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Germany is bringing back several ISIS members from Syria
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Women and children in al-Hol camp, controlled by Kurdish forces, on December 10, 2020 (symbolic image)
Source: AFP / DELIL SOULEIMAN
Shortly before Christmas, the German government recovered several captured German citizens in northern Syria. They are said to have joined the SI. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs hired a plane for return transport.
reAccording to media reports, the federal government brought several captured German IS members back to Germany from northern Syria for the first time this weekend. As reported on Saturday by the “Bild” newspaper, among others, it is said to have involved the repatriation of three women and their children and several orphans from Kurdish camps.
The SWR spoke of a total of 15 Germans with a suspected IS history who were handed over to a delegation from the Foreign Ministry on Saturday in the northern Syrian city of Kamishli. These are the three women mentioned and their children. According to “Bild”, the Foreign Ministry is said to have rented a machine for the return operation, and federal police officers are said to have accompanied the flight.
According to SWR, the operation had been prepared months ago. Kurdish self-governing authorities have had a corresponding list of names for a long time, he said.
The Foreign Ministry declined to comment on the process on Saturday at the request of the German Press Agency. There was also no information on whether the return campaign was the first of its kind.
In November 2019, a woman who had previously emigrated to the territory of the IS terrorist militia returned to Germany with the support of the federal government. The authorities had investigated the returnees from the Islamic State for belonging to a foreign terrorist organization and for violating the duty of care or education. In previous years, the federal government had only helped children out of Syrian prison camps.
