https://www.thelocal.se/20180209/kurds-demand-sweden-take-back-its-is-fighters“The second thing is that if they have committed crimes where they are, they should be put in front of a court there, where there is a possibility of investigating them.”
He denied that Sweden was trying to duck the foreign fighters issue.
“What I want is for people who have committed crimes to face justice in some way or another,” he said.
“It’s important that we can send the signal that if you go to another country to join a terrorist sect and carry out terrible violent acts, that you risk punishment.”
He warned that Sweden had yet to criminalise involvement in a terrorist organisation, making it hard to punish Isis fighters solely for their allegiance to the group.
“Those people have carried out a long list of crimes there, like murder, kidnapping, rape, arson. It’s always more effective to investigate that sort of thing right where it happened.”