An unknown number of ISIS terrorists from the recently liberated prison camps in Syria may already be in the Nordic countries. This has now been announced by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Just days after the EU and the Swedish Migration Board decided that membership in the terrorist sect ISIS could form the basis for granting asylum, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (UD) has now announced that an unknown number of terrorists who were previously held captive in camps in northern Syria may have already returned “home” to the Nordic countries. Others are believed to be on their way to Europe.

“We have noted the information about the movement of third-country nationals. We cannot at this time say whether there were Swedes among them. The situation is changing, and we are following developments very closely,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote in an email to the news website Omni.

Around 6,000 women and children from 42 different countries were previously held in the so-called foreign annex of the al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria, which housed some of the most radical members of the terrorist sect.

Since the Syrian government took control of the camps, most of these foreign terrorists and their families are reported to have left Syria. The majority of these are believed to want to return to their former homelands in Europe. Even IS terrorists who have never previously held European citizenship or a residence permit in Europe are considered to be heading towards the EU, as former membership of ISIS is now considered a valid reason for obtaining asylum.

The EU’s asylum authority EUAA recently published an updated country guide for Syria that all 27 member states’ asylum authorities are obliged to take into account.

Chapter 4.6 deals with what the authority calls “Persons with perceived links to ISIL”, and since the EUAA considers that these terrorists are at risk of being subjected to “extrajudicial executions, arbitrary and massive deprivation of liberty and degrading treatment in detention facilities” after the fall of the caliphate, the EUAA believes that the terrorists should be considered to have the right to asylum within the EU.

Reception of returning terrorists is a municipal responsibility in Sweden.