Netherlands - Abducted children taken to Syria war zone, Oct 2014

[zwiebel]

Despite warnings from their father and several interviews with police, a mother in the Netherlands has been able to abduct her children and take them to war-torn Syria.

Two Dutch children have been abducted by their mother and taken to the ISIL-held city of Raqqa in Syria, the Dutch prosecution's office has confirmed.

The children's 32-year-old mother took the boy and girl, aged 7 and 8, from their hometown of Maastricht in southern Netherlands in October, after which Dutch police rang a major alert, public broadcaster NOS reported on Monday.

The children's father had warned police his wife, who is Chechen, planned to abduct them, but when interviewed she denied it. Now Prosecutor Bart den Hartigh says it's impossible to recover the children, Lucas and Aysha, because 'the Netherlands has no legal relationship with Syria and the woman and children are in a war zone'.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/...en-isil-held-syrian-city-150316095640522.html

 

[zwiebel]

Link in Dutch: http://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/binnenland/onderzoek-naar-jihadnetwerk-maastricht

 

[zwiebel]

Oh heck, I meant to put this in the 'Crimes, spotlight on children' forum.

 

[SeriouslySearching]

What a horrific story! Tragic for the children and father.

 

[FrostOwl]

March 2018:
It seems as the mother and the two children were in Chechia.
DPG Media Privacy Gate

 

[forthelost]

There's a US case like this too.

 

[FrostOwl]

An article from March 2015:
The Mother Who Kidnapped Her Children for ISIS
The children went missing in October 2014.