(Dutch News) The government plans to try to bring five Dutch terrorist suspects back from Syria to ensure they don’t escape trial, justice minister Ferd Grapperhaus has told MPs.
The decision follows Rotterdam court rulings, which said the cases could be suspended unless the suspects are brought back within three and six months, or that concrete steps have been made to repatriate them.
If they are not repatriated, they can “in principle no longer be prosecuted for the crimes they are charged with,” Grapperhaus told MPs. “These are serious crimes that should not go unpunished.”
Each of the five cases — all thought to involve women with children — will be looked at individually and a decision taken on that basis, the minister said.
