(Yle) Finland’s National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) suspects a Finnish woman of aggravated human trafficking of her own children after she brought them to the ISIS “caliphate” in the region of Syria and northern Iraq in 2014.
Detective Inspector Jan Aarnisalo, who is leading the investigation, told Finnish news agency STT that the suspect is a 40-year-old woman who lived in the Helsinki metropolitan area until she took several of her underage children to the war-torn region a decade ago.
Yle understands the woman returned to Finland with one of the children in late 2021, as part of efforts by Finnish authorities to repatriate Finnish women and children from the al-Hol displacement camp in northeast Syria.
