(AFP) Belgium must do everything it can to ensure the safe return of Belgian jihadists’ children being held in Kurdish-controlled camps in northern Syria, Prime Minister Alexander de Croo said Thursday.
De Croo warned that conditions in the two camps, packed with detainees since the territorial defeat of the Islamic State (IS) group, were deteriorating and those under 12 years old must be allowed to come home.
He warned of the risk of the children being radicalised in the camps.
“In these camps there are the terrorists of tomorrow and we cannot permit that,” he told parliament.
“These children, we must do all we can to get them out,” he said.
