Germany carries out new repatriation of jihadist women and their children
Women of Islamic State jihadists in the al-Hol camp in Kurdistan (illustration image).
AFP - DELIL SOULEIMAN
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Germany has again repatriated jihadist women and their children.
These Germans had left to join the ranks of the Islamic State organization during the previous decade and had since been in captivity in a camp under Kurdish control in Syria.
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With our correspondent in Berlin,
Pascal Thibault
As soon as they arrived at Frankfurt airport, six of the ten repatriated women were arrested.
The other four remained at large but legal proceedings were opened against them.
They are notably prosecuted for belonging to a terrorist organization.
One of them is accused of crimes against humanity because she is suspected of having enslaved a woman from the Kurdish-speaking Yezidi minority.
Charges that also struck other German women prosecuted and convicted by German justice.
The German Foreign Minister spoke of an “
extremely difficult operation
” to repatriate these ten women and their 27 children.
For Annalena Baerbock, the latter are the “victims” of the Islamic State organization and “
they have a right to a better future far from the murderous ideology of Daesh and to a safe life.
".
The minister specified that only a few people of German nationality remained to be repatriated who had left the country to join the jihadist movement.
Berlin is working on “individual solutions” for these latter cases.
Germany carried out a total of five operations which led to the repatriation of 91 people, the majority of whom were children.
►Also read: Germany: a woman returning from jihad sentenced to 5 years in prison
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