(Deutsche Welle) A 23-year-old German-Egyptian citizen detained by Egyptian authorities at Cairo airport on December 27 has arrived back home in the central German city of Göttingen. Germany’s Foreign Ministry confirmed the man’s return on Friday.
Egypt’s state-run Al-Ahram newspaper said that authorities arrested the man on suspicion of terrorist links and that he had traveled to Egypt to join “Islamic State” (IS) militants in North Sinai.
Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, who was in possession of a German and an Egyptian passport when he was detained in Cairo, was traveling with his brother Malik at the time of his arrest. The two men arrived in Cairo from Saudi Arabia, where they are enrolled in the Islamic studies program at the Islamic University of Medina.
