(News1) The Syria fighter Noura Firoud (24) from Vilvoorde returned to Belgium on Thursday with her three children. This is reported by the public prosecutor of Halle-Vilvoorde, which will take care of the three minor children.
Noura Firoud was seventeen years old when she left for Syria in 2013 with Houssien Elouassaki, a figurehead of Sharia4Belgium. When he died, Firoud remarried another Syria fighter from Vilvoorde, Ali Houdaifa Ammi. He too had left for Syria in 2013, but there is no trace of him anymore. He may have been killed by other IS fighters. The man was sentenced in absentia to five years in prison at the Sharia4Belgium trial.
Shortly after her departure, the prosecutor’s office prosecuted Firoud for participating in the activities of a terrorist group and recruiting fighters, but because the young woman was in Syria, no measure could be imposed on her at the time.
