The Belgian government is ordered to work on the repatriation of ten children who are in Syria. Belgium takes note of this judgment, handed down on December 11 in summary proceedings by the Brussels Court of First Instance, said Foreign Minister Philippe Goffin on Wednesday.
At the request of the deputy and leader of the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), Abdellatif Ouahbi , an information parliamentary mission will be set up in the coming days. It will travel to Iraq and Syria to inquire about the situation of Moroccan women and children trapped in conflict zones.
The Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST), in coordination with the General Intelligence (RG), the judicial police and the Royal Gendarmerie of the province of Sidi Slimane, recently carried out a wave of arrests in Salafist circles.
Three widows of Islamic State (IS) fighters have been sentenced to five years in prison and stripped of their Belgian nationality.
Belgian politicians are divided on the issue of repatriating or not the jihadists imprisoned in the camps in Iraq and Syria. Many think that their return to their homeland would allow them to reconnect with their terrorist activities.
Turkey is pursuing its policy of expelling foreign jihadists from its soil to their countries of origin. In total, 11 jihadists were sent back, on Monday, December 9, 2019, to France.
Abdellah Nouamane wishes to be repatriated from Syria. The jihadist imprisoned in a high-security prison in Hassaké, confided to a VTM team his desire to return to serve his sentence in Belgium.
Belgium is called upon to repatriate one of its jihadist nationals and her child from the Syrian Al Hol camp under penalty of a daily fine. This is the decision of the Brussels interim judge.
Tired of his living conditions in the prison of Hassaké, in Syria nicknamed "the prison of the IS", Abdellah Nouamane alias Abou Jihad al Belgiki, one of the most dangerous Belgian jihadists, would like to return to his country to serve his sentence there.
The number of Belgians killed in Syria since 2012 stands at 151, Interior Minister Pieter De Crem told Parliament.
Rahma Benmezian, 31, and her sister Fatima, 24, are two jihadists that Turkey expelled, on Friday, November 29, from its territory to their country of origin, Belgium.
Nora Marzkioui, the widow of Nabil Kasmi, leader of Sharia4Belgium, has escaped from the Al-Hol Kurdish camp and is trying to return to Belgium. The federal prosecutor’s office announced this on Thursday, during a trial involving the fugitive.