(Dutch News) The Dutch government will not help IS fighter Yago Riedijk return to the country and his British wife and child should not be allowed to join him, ministers and MPs said at the weekend.
Riedijk, 26, told the BBC and the Volkskrant he hoped he could be reunited with his British wife, Shamima Begum, who has … been stripped of her citizenship by the UK government, and their newborn baby. Riedijk is currently being held in a Kurdish detention centre, while Begum and her son, Jarrah, were living until recently in a refugee camp in northern Syria.
A spokesman for Dutch justice minister Ferdinand Grapperhaus said the government would not help Riedijk with his repatriation. “The rules are the same as for all Dutch travellers [to Syria]. If they want to return they will not have any assistance there from the Dutch side.”
