Nearly 6,000 western europeans acceded to the terrorist organisations Islamic state between 2013 and 2018. Of these, almost 2,000 from France, while around 1,000 travelled from Germany and 850 from the Uk. From Sweden estimated 300 have traveled to the so-called caliphate.
crushed, and several hundred of the IS-terrorists with european citizenship (sometimes with dual citizenship) has been taken prisoner by kurdish militias in northern Syria. The question is how their home countries now to deal with them legally.
president of the united states Donald Trump put in the weekend pressure on the europeans by tweeting that they need to take home 800 of their own citizens who are detained in the kurdish areas and bring them to justice. Otherwise, the threatened Trump, released the free.
Trump has decided to take back the 2,000 american soldiers who are in Syria supporting the kurds.
is the expert on the EU parliament and was the principal author of a report some years ago about the return of the ICE warriors.
– You can’t say that there is no common european approach to deal with the ICE-prisoners, ” says Scherrer.
– It is essentially a national matter. Each member state has the right to act as we think is appropriate.
” so Far, we have seen different approaches; some want to set ICE-warriors to face justice at home, the other not.
very true, the positions between the EU countries concerned.
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France has flagged to allow it to own the judicial system take care of the IS-terrorists, while british ministers have expressed intransigence and withdrawal of the citizenship of brits who stayed in the IS ”caliphate”.
the German government want as far as possible, coordinate the ICE-management with other member countries and follows closely the the conduct of others. In particular, if you look at France and the Uk, but Berlin is discussing also with Washington in the issue, writes the Financial Times.
Around 50 German citizens have been captured by kurdish forces in northeast Syria, according to government spokesperson Steffen Seibert.
when it comes to return terrorists to the end of the day lies mainly in the member states does not preclude that the issue has been thoroughly discussed at european level in both the EU-parliament which in the council of ministers, where not least the EU’s counter-terrorism coordinator Gilles de Kerchove has ventilated the.
– It is discussed all the time. It is one of the key items on the anti-terrorist agenda, ” says Amandine Scherrer.
the Countries cooperate as much as they can where it will not the law of when. Not least, they exchange information, ” explains Scherrer.
” I would guess in this case that it will be on a case-by-case basis.
There is some legislation at the EU level when it comes to the fight against terrorism. Such a directive is about the criminalisation of terrorrelaterade travel.