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Military parade of the terrorist militia IS in Syria (archive photo from 2014)
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The federal government wants to bring home a male fighter from the terrorist militia "Islamic State" (IS) for the first time.
As SPIEGEL reports in its current issue, Berlin is urging the Iraqi government in Baghdad to agree to the extradition of the Hessian Islamist Deniz B.
In return, Iraq was assured that he would be arrested upon arrival in Germany.
The Kurdish autonomy government, which B. has been imprisoned in northern Iraq for three and a half years, had openly shown in the autumn to transfer the man to Germany.
An answer from the central government in Baghdad is still pending.
Deniz B. left in March 2016 with his wife Sibel H. to the area in Syria and Iraq that was then controlled by IS.
The investigators believe that he was a terrorist militia fighter.
This emerges from IS documents that US officials seized and transmitted to the German authorities.
Photos also show B. in combat gear and with an explosive belt.
In Germany there is an arrest warrant against him for membership in a terrorist organization.
Deniz B. was arrested by Kurdish Peshmerga forces in the summer of 2017.
He is currently in prison with Erbil.
In Kurdistan, a court sentenced him to a good five years' imprisonment last year.
His wife, who was transferred to Germany in 2018 and convicted of IS membership in Munich, claimed that B. only worked as a nurse in an IS hospital.
The court thought that was implausible.
Should Deniz B. be extradited to Germany, he would be the first male IS supporter to be brought back from Iraq or Syria.
So far, the federal government had only allowed individual women and children to be brought to Germany.
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