The US president has repeatedly called on Germany and other European nations whose citizens joined the terrorists and were captured, to relieve the Americans. Shortly before travelling to france for the G7 summit, he resumed his demands, threatening “to release them into the countries from which they came.”
US President Donald Trump at the gathering of the G7 leaders in Biarritz, France, again pressed German Chancellor Angela Merkel to deal with Daesh fighters from Germany held captive by the US after the terror groups were curbed.
“We did a great job, and we have had very good talks. It's not fair for the United States to have these people and we want to give them to the areas where they came from. That includes not just Germany. We have a lot from france. We have a lot from [the] UK. We have a lot from a lot of different countries,” he said.
Even when the chancellor was specifically asked by a journalist about his earlier demands to take the captured jihadists and threats to release them if European nations refuse to do so, Trump took the word first and reassured that they were now discussing the issue.
“We're talking about that now. We have a lot from Germany, which is a great thing. We'll work something out. I think we're going to work something out,” the US commander-in-chief insisted, while Merkel noted that her country had already taken “a number of family members, among them primarily children back” and…
