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During a sensitive operation under close surveillance in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the country repatriated a group of 25 Bosnians from Syria and Iraq on Thursday December 19. A number of them are suspected of having fought in the ranks of the Islamic State organization and have been imprisoned.
With our correspondent in Belgrade , Laurent Rouy
The police had deployed very heavily at Sarajevo airport on Thursday evening to secure the operation to repatriate 25 Bosnian nationals returning from Syria and Iraq. This operation, implemented with the support of the United States, allowed the return of this group of Bosnians, previously imprisoned for nine months in a Kurdish camp in Syria.
Among them: six women and 12 children, but above all seven veterans of the Islamic State organization. The women and children have been housed in a refugee camp and should be able to return quickly to their former home. However, the court in Bosnia and Herzegovina ordered pre-trial detention for five of the combatants, the other two still being questioned by the police pending transfer to the court.
It is not the first time that Bosnia and Herzegovina has repatriated some of its nationals involved in the Islamic State organization. Forty-nine had already been repatriated in the past three years, and among them 24 men have already been sentenced to terms of one to four years in prison. A hundred Bosnians remain in Syria.