by Soeren Kern • June 29, 2019 at
5:00 am
- Swedish Television
surveyed officials in the five Swedish municipalities —
Gothenburg, Stockholm, Örebro, Malmö and Borås — that are home
to most of the 150 IS returnees and found that those
municipalities combined only have knowledge of the whereabouts
of a maximum of 16 adults and 10 children.
- "The United
States is asking Britain, France, Germany and other European
allies to take back over 800 ISIS fighters that we captured in
Syria and put them on trial... The alternative is not a good
one in that we will be forced to release them..." — U.S.
President Donald Trump, Twitter, February 16, 2019.
- The Wall Street
Journal, in a recent editorial, "The West's Foreign
Fighter Problem," noted that European governments face a
"Catch-22" situation: either repatriate and
prosecute their jihadis, or risk that they disappear off the
radar and carry out new attacks in Europe.
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"[I]t
is particularly worrying that the [German] federal government
appears to have taken no further measures to prevent the
uncontrolled re-entry of underground IS [Islamic State]
fighters," says Linda Teuteberg, Secretary General of
Germany's Free Democratic Party. She added that the government
"still has no concept for dealing with former IS fighters from
Germany," including "Germans detained in the war zone as
well as the more than 200 former IS supporters who are now back in
Germany." (Image source: Olaf
Kosinsky / CC BY-SA 3.0-de via Wikimedia Commons)
The German government has lost track of scores of
Germans who travelled to Iraq and Syria in recent years to join the
Islamic State (IS). The revelation comes amid growing fears that
some of these fighters are returning to Germany undetected by
authorities.
The German Interior Ministry, in response to a
question from the Secretary General of the classical liberal Free
Democratic Party (FDP), Linda Teuteberg, revealed that German
authorities lack information on the whereabouts of at least 160
Germans who left to fight with the IS, according to Welt am
Sonntag. The ministry said that while some had probably been
killed in combat, others have gone into hiding and may be trying to
resettle in Germany.
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