Militant Islam Monitor > Articles > Antwerp Municipality Scraps Jihad Fighters Resident Status Antwerp Municipality Scraps Jihad Fighters Resident StatusJune 14, 2013
http://www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/21650634/__Antwerpen_schrapt_jihadisten__.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Antwerp will scrap residents who fight in the Syrian civil war out of the population registery. Mayor Bart De Wever made this known on Friday in the Gazet van Antwerpen. By this scrapping the youth will have no official address anymore and lose their social rights. The procedure has already started according to the mayor. There means that it can be controlled if the youth still live in the Flemish city. "The bureaucratic scrapping of these people falls totally under my supervision" claims the mayor. De Wever, of the rightwing party N- VA, had announced earlier that he would do everything to prevent that jihadists still will walk around in his city. The mayor of Antwerp calls upon young Muslims not to go to Syria. Dont be attracted to radicalism. The chance is great that you wont return from Syria because it is hell there" emphasized De Wever. According to him the chance is however small that the youth return. "These Antwerp jihadists know that a legal dossier is hanging over their heads. If they show their faces here they will be arrested". |