In October last year experts from the european countries in Luxembourg to discuss how best to deal with children who are in, and return from IS-controlled areas.
In conjunction with the conference released mötesrapporten ”High-level conference on child returnees and released prisoners”. It is published by the Radicalisation Awareness Network, Ran, which was initiated by the EU commission in 2015 to develop methods that can tackle radicalisation.
Countries like France and the Netherlands have a completely different state of preparedness at the national level than it has in Sweden, ” says Yassin Ekdahl, a psychologist and former kommittésekreterare of the National coordinator against våldsbejakande extremism.
at an early stage to put into specific national deployment of incident response teams with many skills who can supervise the municipalities.
– It is a model that we proposed in our final report, municipalities of groping in the day in the dark, ” says Yassin Ekdahl.
According to the report, is estimated today that there are approximately 1,400 children in Iraq and Syria. 600 are estimated to be born and is today younger than 5 years.
About 100 children held in detention in camps in Iraq, Syria or other countries in the region.
”Many of these children will soon return to their home country with or without their parents,” it says in the report.
Yassin Ekdahl, a psychologist and former kommittésekreterare of the National coordinator against våldsbejakande extremism. Photo: Private
must return as soon as possible. It is desirable, both when it comes to the best interest of the child and for the safety of the home in the longer term.
– It is not to be nice and cuddly that we should take them home, but for our own security. It shows the experience of France and the Netherlands, that the worst thing you can do is to release them to the wind and tide. We can’t rely on the police to solve it for us anymore, ” says Yassin Ekdahl.
In France there is information that the authorities traveled down and retrieved the small children. In Belgium they have not done it. Where a grandmother sued the state because she did not get home their grandchildren who are two and four years old.
the Children left behind risk becoming angrier and show a major disappointment vis-à-vis western society” later, the report said.
” It is interesting that countries such as France and the Netherlands, who are hard hit by terrorism, saying it is unsustainable to allow small children to be left behind.
agree to five-year olds do not pose any security risk.
– They may well have seen people beheaded, and may even think that it is normal. To their world is the here and now. They need to come home to a normal everyday life where there is structure. That their brains can adapt and change.
In Sweden, the authorities are not agreed that small child to come home. The foreign MINISTRY has said, for instance, that we are not going to go down and retrieve the children.
“It is unfortunate,” says Mr Ekdahl.
today, there is no indication that there would be other than English child born on the site and which are older than five years, according to him.
” The families who went away with the children, and those who went that close to the teens, have all returned as far as we know.
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