18 Jun, 2020 @ 14:55
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Swiss plan to strip Islamist terrorist of citizenship scuppered by Spain

Daniel D

SWISS plans to strip a terrorist of his citizenship have been scuppered by Spain.

Daniel D, also known as Abu Ilias al-Swissri, was dubbed ‘Switzerland’s most dangerous jihadist’ after he left the country in 2015 to join Islamic State.

He has been languishing in a Syrian jail since being captured in June last year.

The 24-year-old was born in Geneva to Swiss and Spanish parents and held dual citizenship. The Swiss government had started the long process to remove his citizenship only to find Spain had beaten them to it in 2015.

Daniel D
DANGEROUS: Daniel D is languishing in Syrian jail. Credit: SRF screenshot.

This means Switzerland can not do the same as it would leave the terrorist stateless.

Spain and Switzerland cooperate on anti-terrorism measures, but in this case communication would appear to have broken down.

Daniel D is the only Swiss jihadist on an Interpol list of 173 members of IS’s ‘martyr brigade’. He was captured by the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the eastern Syrian town of Al-Baghuz.

He was born into a Catholic family but later turned to Islam before being radicalised.

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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