A seven-member German-Iraqi family arrived in Berlin after being deported from Turkey. According to the German Press Agency, she landed at Berlin Tegel Airport in the late afternoon. The family from Hildesheim is attributed to the Salafist milieu. The Turkish Ministry of the Interior described them as "foreign terrorist fighters". Arrest warrants for Islamist activities are not available against family members in Germany. However threatens the father possibly because of other criminal machinations prosecution.
According to German authorities, all family members have German citizenship except for the father. There are four women, two men and a baby. At the end of January, they traveled to Turkey and after two months were arrested in the city of Samsun. In Turkish deportation one of the children was born. The reason for the detention was not mentioned by the Turkish authorities.
A spokesman for the Federal Ministry of the Interior said that he knew that there was no IS connection. Many organizations are ready for deradicalization and reintegration. The CDU interior expert Armin Schuster told the RTL media group that Hildesheimer are not "high-profile danger cases", but also "not dangerous". Authorities are "experienced in receiving and receiving such persons".
After landing, the family was told by security officials to meet representatives of several authorities and also to be interviewed. How it goes on after that was initially open. The Federal Police wanted to carry out immigration checks and check whether the family has valid papers.
Turkey had announced the deportation of several German suspected supporters of the terrorist militia IS this week. However, nothing is known about a possible stay of the B. family in the formerly IS-controlled area in Iraq or Syria.
NRW expects up to 50 IS returnees
On Friday two wives of IS fighters are expected in Germany. According to dpa information, this is a woman born in 1998 who managed to escape from the Kurdish prisoner camp Al-Hol in Syria. She sat last in the Turkish city of Gaziantep in deportation custody. In addition, on Friday a native Hanoverian will be put on the plane, which had succeeded after a mass exodus from the Syrian camp Ain Issa to settle in the direction of Turkey.
In addition, the Higher Administrative Court of Berlin-Brandenburg decided that the federal government must bring back another - according to their own information former -IS-trailer with her two small children. SPIEGEL information is about a woman from Berlin, who had traveled with the two children to the area of the "Islamic State" (IS) and is currently being held at the Al-Hol detention center by Kurdish forces.
The NRW state government expects, according to data from Thursday, a total of up to 50 IS returnees to North Rhine-Westphalia, who are currently in prison in Turkey, Syria and Iraq. According to information from the Ministry of Interior, six men and women living in North Rhine-Westphalia are imprisoned in Turkey. When they come to Germany is still unclear.