This story is full of absurdities showing up some of the maladies of the West today. Why was this jihad terrorist allowed to come and go for medical treatment? Why was he collecting aid? He retained his Austrian citizenship because he doesn’t have any other, but in going to fight for the Islamic State, he committed himself to citizenship in the ISIS caliphate, an entity that was and is at war with Austria. This should not be ignored by Austrian authorities. They are fools to ignore it.
“IS fighter retains citizenship,” translated from “IS-Kämpfer behält Staatsbürgerschaft,” Wien ORF.at, June 15, 2020 (thanks to Medforth):
Azad G. had made headlines several times: a year after leaving Syria in 2013, he returned to his hometown of Vienna to receive multiple outpatient treatments for a gunshot wound. During this leave from the front he 14 times collected 885.47 euros in minimum security. Then he traveled to Syria again.
After the case became known, the municipal department MA 35 wanted to revoke his Austrian citizenship. However, the Vienna Administrative Court canceled the decision on April 20, as Beatrix Hornschall, the vice president of the Vienna Administrative Court, confirmed to Vienna Today. Because Austrian citizenship would only be withdrawn if you had dual citizenship.
Azad G. not a Turkish citizen
The MA 35 assumed that Azad G. is an Austrian-Turkish dual citizen. “We have our knowledge from the naturalization files of that time,” MA 35 said in February regarding the ongoing revocation proceedings against several alleged IS fighters.
In the case of Azad G. “it was only in the appeal procedure before the Vienna Administrative Court that the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey announced by way of legal aid that the applicant was not a Turkish citizen. There are no indications that he holds any other citizenship. Because the complainant is only in possession of Austrian citizenship, this cannot be withdrawn from him, according to the clear legal wording of section 33 (2) of the Citizenship Act, as this would render him stateless,” said Hornschall.
Location currently unknown
According to the State Department, the current “whereabouts of Azad G. are unknown”. He is said to have been captured by Kurdish soldiers. There was a video of him in the previous year saying, “I hope you can see that I am repentant.”…