T H E T TIMES: I Jihadists · Global Voices SIS out of prison willing to die for California from Kosovo

This is the article by author Anthony Loyd, published today for The Times, which he translates into Albanian Periscope.

Four years have passed since a young soldier of I The SIS from Kosovo witnessed one of the organisation's most disgusting murders. Fitim Ladrovci was 24 years old when he saw a Syrian tied to a rope and blown up by a grenade.

“Definitely not the worst thing I've seen, amid many executions, beheadings and burnings of living people they made,” he said, recalling what he had seen from Pristina, Kosovo's capital, with continued loyalty to the ISIS. And the kids got used to things like that. ”

The killer was named Lavdrim Muharzier, a famous Kosovar who was labeled an international terrorist before being killed by a drone. His identity and that video of the murder put Kosovo in the heart of foreign jihadists and alarmed European security services for the threat coming out.

Despite loyalty to the United States and Nato for the help they were given to free the country from Serbia in the 1990s, the recent radicalisation of some young people from Kosovo from Arab charities and imams gave the country the prominence as the country with more foreign head fighters than all other European or Balkan nations.

Kosovo authorities know 348 people travelled to Syria to join I SIS from 2012. Many have died there, but many have returned. In the absence of a cohesive door-to-side programme, prisoners like Ludrovci are getting out of jail, continuing their support for ISIS.

“Califat is not over,” said this week, four months after the release. Her “I want to create a Islamic State in Kosovo and die with great desire for it. ”

Kosovars have been involved in many other terrorist cases. Six Kosovars, men and women were arrested in Kosovo and Germany last June for evolution on two occasions targeting Nato troops in Kosovo and civilians in Belgium and France. A month earlier, eight others were imprisoned in Kosovo because they had planned to free up Israeli national football players.

“We have no problem putting Islamic State members,” said Fikrije Krasniqi, 57, one of two prosecutors dealing with the new cases of terrorism in Kosovo. “What is difficult is to change their minds. We note that most ISIS members are irreformable. ”

Ladrovci never faced legal persecution after his first 20-day trip to Syria in 2013 to serve the al-Qaeda group in Aleppo, on the Front of al-Nusras. He had been interrogated for 11 hours and was later released. A new law was passed in 2015, implying that after his second trip to Syria, when he fought as a member of the Mujajer Albanian entity, he would be charged with terrorism.

Aware of the threat posed by the freed ISIS prisoners, Kosovo has put redeployment programmes in its prisons. Not mandatory, however, that a former member of I SIS follow them. Despite being arrested carrying a pistol and a grenade, Ledrovci had refused to see an imam in prison.

Kosovo judges often find it hard to pronounce long sentences against ISIS members because of Syria's lack of evidence, so that most were given short sentences despite the gravity of crimes. Moreover, the lack of rigidity in the forgiving system suits terrorists suspects. Ms Krasniqi, who is working on 15 new terror cases, was awaiting a verdict this week for two men, one of whom was trying to convince the other to join a suicide attack against NATO forces.

The apology system is not strict enough here,” She said. The most serious of the two accused was only in forgiveness for involvement in terrorist acts. ”

Arab charities are highly observed in Kosovo, yet despite strong family ties, radical religious preachers scattered their ideology into the minds of the new generation, calling it part of their right. /Periscopi