A Slovak woman and two children related to ISIS mercenaries were brought to Slovakia. (source: SITA)
A Slovak woman linked to Islamic terrorist group ISIS has been charged with terror offences after she was secretly transported back to Slovakia from Kurdistan.
The woman, who has been identified as 44-year-old Renáta D., arrived in Slovakia on a special government repatriation flight on Sunday night, February 12. She was then handed over to the National Crime Agency and has since been charged with offences including support of a terrorist group.
Syrian news agency Hawar confirmed that "a woman and two children of Slovak nationality from the families of ISIS mercenaries were handed over".
The SME daily has claimed the woman is related to a fighter in Islamic State or ISIS and lived in eastern Syria. The fighter is alleged to be her husband and doctor from Egypt. She met him almost 20 years ago.
It is the first known case of a Slovak citizen having joined the terror group.
Woman rejects guilt
The woman, who is now in custody, is alleged to come from Rimavská Sobota, a town in the south of central Slovakia.
According to her lawyer Juraj Remšík, the Slovak denies the guilt. She claims she was never an active member of the Islamic State and only followed her husband to Syria, who went there as a doctor for work in 2014, the Markíza television channel reported.
From 2019, when the Kurds detained her, she was involuntarily detained in an intervention camp without freedom of movement and any contact with her family until the time of repatriation, her lawyer has told the JOJ television channel.
The Slovak police put the woman on the list of wanted persons in 2019. She is no longer on this list.
