German authorities are worried about the Islamic State terrorists coming home

German authorities are worried about the Islamic State terrorists coming home

For months, the women and children were locked up in the Ayn Issa camp, located around 45 kilometers from the border with Turkey. But now, the internment facility has been dissolved and hundreds of followers of the terrorist militia Islamic State (IS) are free, including at least four women from Germany and their children.

“Bombs are falling constantly,” wrote one of the German IS women via WhatsApp shortly before the Kurds abandoned their post. Now, they are allegedly planning on making their way across the border into Turkey and from there back home to Germany.

Another Islamist woman claimed to have made it with her daughter to a small village near the border. They, too, want to return to their home in the German state of Hesse.

Whereas the families of the German IS woman are looking forward to the return of their daughters and grandchildren, it is a nightmare come true for security officials. The Turkish military invasion in northern Syria has led to a situation where control may soon be completely lost over the thousands of IS fighters who had been held by the Kurds in camps and prisons in northern Syria.

In Berlin, concerns are growing that following the release of the women, the men might be next — and that they could be able to find their way into Europe undetected. Security officials fear that some of them may bring along intentions of carrying out an attack.

Source: Spiegel