In safety: The little boy, son of an IS supporter, arrives at Frankfurt Airport during a return campaign by the federal government.
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In Hesse, the first charge against an IS returnee has also been filed for violating the duty of care. Fatiha B. is said to have deliberately taken her nine-month-old daughter to the terrorist organization’s territory.
An March 31, a chartered Boeing landed at Frankfurt Airport with ten women and 27 children on board, accompanied and monitored by officers from the Federal Criminal Police Office. The police arrested four of the women at the airport because the investigating judge at the Federal Court of Justice had issued arrest warrants against them: Nadine K., Gülseren T., Emilie R. and Fatiha B. They were urgent suspects who had joined the so-called Islamic State (IS). to have, as the federal prosecutor announced on the same day.
The flight in spring 2022 was the federal government’s largest return operation to date: never before had so many German supporters of the terrorist organization “Islamic State” been taken with their children from Kurdish prison camps and brought to Germany. For years, the federal government had been extremely reluctant to bring back its citizens who had traveled to the IS and then been arrested by Kurdish combat units. On the first flight in the summer of 2019, only sick children of IS supporters and orphans were allowed to travel to Germany.