Syrian returnees released to Kosovo 32 women under investigation

All returnees from Syria to Kosovo have been released from the Centre for Foreigners in Pristina's village of Vranidol, where they were held since Saturday, the Kosovo Special Prosecutor confirmed.

Meanwhile, 32 returning women are being investigated by Kosovo institutions.

The Special Prosecutor confirmed to Radio Free Europe that these women have been previously under investigation, but that they have been suspended because suspects have been elusive for the prosecution.

Sylla Hoxha, from the Kosovo Special Prosecutor, confirmed the resumption of investigations.

The “Accounts will continue, because they have already been under investigation, but investigations have been suspended because they have been elusive for the prosecution, so they will resume investigations of 32 of them, at the moment”, Hoxha said.

According to him, even though women have been released, the prosecution will continue the investigation company.

Kosovo institutions returned to Kosovo, Friday midnight, 110 Kosovars, who were in conflict areas in Syria.

Kosovo Police General Director Rashit Qalaj, the day after their return to Kosovo, announced that four fighters, 32 women and 74 children, including nine children who lost their parents in the war, returned from Syria.

For the four fighters, Qalaj said they were arrested at the moment of arrival in Kosovo. Prescribed for them has already been made.

More than 300 citizens of Kosovo, mostly adults, have gone to the last six years in Syria and Iraq to fight on the side of the militant Islamic State group.

More than 70 have been killed, while many women and children have continued to remain in the area.

Kosovo has drafted a law in 2015, with which any person participating in foreign wars could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison. / REL.