Seven children, four women and a young man return aboard a US military transport
Germany has completed the repatriation of the country’s last citizens and children, followers of the Islamic State terrorist organization, who have so far been held in a detention camp controlled by Kurdish militias in northeastern Syria. Seven children and four women arrived at Frankfurt airport tonight aboard a US military transport plane, Federal Secretary of State Annalena Baerbock announced today. A young man was repatriated with the same group, who was taken to Syria at the age of 11 and has now come of age. All the women and the young man were arrested as soon as they set foot on German soil, accused, among other things, of collaborating with a terrorist organization.
The German foreign minister was relieved that “with this action, practically all known cases” of women of German nationality were married to militants of the Islamic State and who traveled to Syria to be with their husbands when the jihadist group had destroyed a large part. of Syria. The children “are not responsible for the fatal decision for their lives made by their parents,” said Baerbock, noting that “after all, they are also victims of the Islamic State and we cannot leave them without prospects in the camps in northeast of the United States.” Syria”. However, the head of German diplomacy emphasized that the repatriated women and young people must answer to the German legal system for their actions.
The German head of foreign affairs thanked the Kurdish government’s support in facilitating repatriation and the United States’ logistical support for the transfer of the group. The federal government has carried out a total of six repatriation operations to allow a total of 26 women, 76 children and a young man of German nationality to return to Germany. The latter were held in the detention camp for Islamic State militants in the town of Roj, in Syrian Kurdistan. Many Islamic State fighters brought their families to Syria and Iraq since 2014, when the terror organization declared its caliphate. An international coalition led by the United States and with decisive Kurdish support put an end to this radical Islamic regime in 2019.
Since then, numerous Islamic State supporters have been imprisoned and, in many cases, imprisoned with their families in Kurdish-controlled camps in northeastern Syria. The Kurdish authorities have repeatedly demanded that the countries of origin take care of and repatriate the people living in appalling conditions in overcrowded camps.
Source: La Verdad
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