Germany Arrests 22-Year-Old who Joined ISIS
March 5, 2015German police on Wednesday arrested a 22-year-old man suspected of joining the Islamic State (ISIS) group and fighting with it in Syria, Reuters reported.
The man, named only as Kerim Marc B., was arrested at Duesseldorf airport, according to the report.
He is suspected of undergoing weapons training with ISIS and planning attacks, after travelling through Turkey to Syria in March 2013 and joining the group by October.
He returned to Germany at the start of 2014 but returned to Syria in July 2014.
Germany, like other Western countries, has expressed concern over the phenomenon of Islamists from Western countries joining jihadists in the Middle East, then bringing terrorism back to their home countries. In September, Berlin announced a ban on ISIS, aiming to prevent the group from recruiting young jihadists in Germany.
Germany’s top public prosecutor has said the German justice system was struggling to cope with the number of suspected jihadists returning from Syria and the resulting investigations and trials, noted Reuters.
About 600 German citizens have joined fighting in Syria, some 70 have died there and about 200 are believed to have returned, German officials have said.
Other European countries have encountered a similar problem, most recently in Britain where three teenaged girls ran away from home and flew to the Middle East to join ISIS.
In November, two brothers became the first Britons to be jailed for terrorism training in Syria, after they had admitted conspiracy to attend a terrorism training camp in 2013.
The danger from radicalized Britons was illustrated in October, when a four-man ISIS terror cell was busted by police before apparently planning to behead one or several Britons on the streets of London.
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