Swiss revoke mother’s citizenship over suspected Islamic State links

(Swiss Info) The Swiss authorities have revoked the citizenship of a French-Swiss [woman] for her suspected links to the Islamic State militant group.

In an information published in the Federal Gazette on December 31, the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) said the 30-year-old dual national from Berolle, near Morges in canton Vaud, had been stripped of her Swiss nationality in accordance with the law.

The SEM confirmed to swissinfo.ch that the woman’s nationality had been revoked for her alleged links to Islamic State.

“She acted against the interests of the Swiss state,” SEM spokesman Daniel Bach told swissinfo.ch.

The authorities say they did not know where exactly she was currently residing.

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