The judge of the National Court
Santiago Pedraz
has ordered provisional detention for the two Spanish women married to jihadists who have been repatriated from Syria.
Both Luna Fernández Grande and Yolanda Martínez Cobos are accused of a crime of integration into a terrorist organization.
The magistrate has made the decision at the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office.
The two women traveled with their husbands to Syria in 2014. One of them was killed in combat and the other is in prison.
They have spent the last few years in refugee camps in the northeast of the country that host more than 50,000 people.
In September 2019, the National Court issued international arrest warrants against four women -three Spanish and one Moroccan- who were in Syria, the country to which they traveled to join the ranks of the Islamic State, and who had expressed their willingness to return to Spain.
At that time, these women had 17 minors under their care.
Government sources quoted by Europa Press have detailed that the repatriation operation, in which several ministries have intervened, has had the support of the United States, which considered the repatriations as "the only lasting solution to the humanitarian and security situation in the camps of displaced persons from Al Hol and Al Roj, in north-eastern Syria".
An official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs visited the Spanish women linked to the Islamic State before the summer to establish the conditions for their eventual return to Spain, according to diplomatic sources.
Said official traveled to the Al Hol and Al Roj camps to be able to "interview with the Spanish citizens who were there" and "establish the conditions to proceed with the repatriation, once the security conditions for it are met".
The third Spanish woman against whom a search and capture order was issued was expected to be repatriated, but she was not located in the refugee camp and remains in Syria.
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