Prishtina - SANA
Today, the prosecutor in Kosovo filed terrorism-related charges against an Albanian man after he was convicted of joining ISIS in Syria.
The Associated Press quoted the public prosecutor as saying in a statement that the accused joined the ISIS terrorist organization in June 2014 with another person who was subsequently killed there and arrested in December 2017. He was among 110 people from Kosovo who were returned from Syria last April.
The statement indicated that the accused went to Syria using illegal passages through neighboring Macedonia, Bulgaria and Turkey, and in Syria he joined ISIS and also published propaganda videos on the Internet showing him in a military uniform carrying an explosive belt and explosive belt.
According to the public prosecutor, the accused forced his three-year-old son to appear in a video, wearing an explosive belt and carrying a Kalashnikov rifle, and asked him to shoot.
He is charged with joining a terrorist group and abusing a child and may face a prison sentence of five to 15 years.
According to the authorities in Kosovo, hundreds of people joined terrorist organizations in Syria and Iraq, killing and arresting scores of them, and 30 others remain among the terrorist groups in Syria.