Alvin's father tells how he went to Syria every year to find the boy, was also captured by I SIS (Video)

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7 January 2020, 10:39(6 years ago)

Five years after his wife kidnapped their son to live with the Islamic State in Syria, Africa Berisha managed to save his son Alvin, who had remained in a refugee camp. Alvin was only 6 years old when his mother converted to Islam, took him away and abandoned his father [...]

Five years after his wife kidnapped their son to live with the Islamic State in Syria, Africa Berisha managed to save his son Alvin, who had remained in a refugee camp.
Alvin was only 6 years old when his mother turned to Islam, took him away and abandoned his father in Albania to join I SIS in Syria.

When Berisha, Alvin's father, realized what had happened, he decided to go to Syria and find his son.

Berisha told the euro that he thought only about Alvin and was not interested in anything else. He added that he had considered the danger, but what could he do?
Just two weeks after his wife took Alvin, Berisha went to Syria. Since the first week he arrived there, he was caught by I SIS.

Berisha was lucky. He managed to escape capture by paying 500 euros to an Albanian ISIS fighter.

After that, he fled Syria, but returned every year to find Alvin, despite the danger he faced, but to no avail in finding him.

After a few years, Berisha received a letter from his young son asking him to return home. In this letter, Alvin told him where he was.

Alvin's mother was killed in combat for Bahouz, east of the country near Deir el Zour. The boy was injured and left alone. He spent about six months in Al-Hol Camp.
Thousands of other European ISIS children are believed to be in camp. Lawyer Darien Levani told Euronea that he deems that Africa Berisha took on the responsibility that governments did not want to assume by returning Alvin home.

Levan said: “The most important thing he did was to let the public know what was happening”. According to the lawyer, this story helps the opinion decide what to do with European children living in those camps.

Tomaso Della Longa from the Red Cross said several governments “have started discussions with us on the repatriation of other children. It's very complex that they can't say that something will happen tomorrow. In the Middle East, the context is very unstable”/ Anelise Borges, EURONEWS.