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20 minutes – Switzerland wants to expatriate IS mother

The 30-year-old Swiss-French dual citizen Sahila F. * has lost the civil rights of a municipality in the Vaud district of Morges, as the SEM announced on Tuesday in the Bundesblatt. However, the authorities are not aware of the current whereabouts of the woman.

The federal decision to expatriate is not yet final, he writes «Tages-Anzeiger”, The woman can challenge him within thirty days at the Federal Administrative Court in St. Gallen.

F. * was born and grew up in Geneva, where he studied business. In October, the 30-year-old was still in an internment camp in northern Syria. F. * had followed the promises of the “Islamic State” at the end of 2016 – she took her two daughters, who were born in Geneva, with them. Malika * (13) and Nalia (7) * know the quiet Swiss everyday life, they know safety, comfort, school and kindergarten. Now they live in a tent, with no future, in a camp with 400 women and children.

“I regret exposing my children to the fact that we even came to Syria,” she said last autumn to a 20-minute reporter who the triple mother had found in the Syrian refugee camp in Roj. But she denies that she took her two children from Switzerland to war. It is clear that a mother never and never leaves her children behind.

First case in September

It would only be the second time since the Second World War that a person’s rights in Switzerland have been revoked. Last September, the SEM had already revoked the passport of a Turkish-Swiss dual citizen. The man had previously been sentenced to several years’ imprisonment by the Federal Criminal Court in 2017 for operating propaganda for IS and recruiting fighters for the terrorist group.

SEM can deprive dual citizens of Swiss citizenship if this person has caused considerable damage to the interests or reputation of Switzerland and thus endangers the security of the country. According to the agency, this is the case, for example, if the person has committed a serious crime related to terrorist activity or violent extremism.

A dozen suspicious dual citizens

However, expatriation is only possible if the person concerned has further citizenship. Otherwise Switzerland would create stateless people, which is prohibited by international law.

At the beginning of June, the Federal Council replied to a move in parliament that the federal government had currently identified more than a dozen dual citizens who were suspected of having participated in crimes related to terrorist activities abroad.

(Scl / rab / SDA)

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