After the terrorist group's defeat in Syria and Iraq, returning European jihadists, Daesh wives, and children have become a problem that many countries are struggling tackle. Although Germany's government has already brought back several children of German Daesh* followers from Iraq, many minors still remain in camps in Syria.
Relatives and family members of Daesh* fighters and their wives have protested against the Foreign Ministry in Berlin, demanding that children and wives of jihadists from Germany should be repatriated. Between 20 and 50 protesters reportedly gathered in front of the Foreign Ministry building holding banners with Daesh children's names, photos, and some info about them. Other placards read “Children are not responsible” and “Innocent German children will die and the state is just watching”.
According to one of the protesters, cited by the website VICE, the German government does not want to take back these children, who are trapped with their mothers in detention camps in Syria.
“I want my grandchildren to leave Syria and come to Hamburg, to live normally, to go to the nursery, to be protected, to be able to hug them, to have food, to be warm, and to love them”, one protester, Intessar Aataba, whose three-year-old and one-year-old grandchildren remain in Syria, told the news agency AFP.
The organiser of the demonstration, Danisch Farooqi, whose wife fled to the Daesh strongholds…