The government has returned home A Spanish woman and a minor From one of the displacement camps in northeastern Syria where relatives of Islamic State members are being held after the defeat of the self-declared caliphate in the country, according to diplomatic sources.
The repatriation took place on November 25th Red fieldControlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). With support from the United StatesAs the Foreign Ministry reported in a statement.
The US State Department added, “The United States thanks Spain for working with us to return its citizens and expresses its gratitude to our local partners, the Syrian Democratic Forces, for their assistance in this return process and their commitment to ensuring the lasting defeat of ISIS.”
At the moment the government He did not provide further details about the identity of the returning woman or the minoralthough in this case it would be his son. This is the second time that Spain has returned citizens from a displacement camp in Syria.
In January 2023, two Spanish women were repatriated
In January 2023, Yolanda Martinez and Luna Fernandez were returned to their homeland along with several minors, some of them their children. In their case, they were detained by the police upon arrival and have been placed at the disposal of the National Court ever since They married members of the Islamic State and adopted its faith.
At the end of last April, the two accepted three years’ imprisonment before the National Court on charges The crime of integration into a terrorist organization With the mitigating circumstance of late confession. Likewise, they accepted the penalty of absolute special deprivation from a teaching or commercial profession for seven years, as well as five years of supervised freedom, which in turn will include submission to a counter-terrorist extremism programme.
As the State Department highlighted, some of it remains 11,600 people from 70 countries, Many of them are under 12 years old. Among them are about 3,700 citizens from more than 30 European countries.
In this sense, the United States insisted that “The only permanent solution “For humanitarian and security challenges in northeastern Syria,” where both camps controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces – a coalition led by Syrian Kurdish militias backed by Washington – are located. “It is for their countries of origin to repatriate them“Rehabilitate and reintegrate them and, where necessary, ensure accountability for their past actions” in order to prevent the return of ISIS.