{"id":29190,"date":"2019-01-15T03:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T03:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29190"},"modified":"2019-01-15T03:24:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T03:24:00","slug":"egypt-deports-another-german-for-alleged-daesh-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29190","title":{"rendered":"Egypt deports another German for alleged Daesh connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1435481\/middle-east\" readability=\"73\">\n<p>\nBERLIN:\u00a0Egypt has deported the second of two young German men who were arrested last month as suspected militants, the Foreign Ministry in Berlin said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\nEighteen-year-old Issa Ibrahim El-Sabagh landed at Frankfurt airport, reported Spiegel Online, following last week\u2019s repatriation of Mahmoud Abdel-Aziz, 23.<\/p>\n<p>\nA ministry spokeswoman confirmed that \u201cthe person arrived back in Germany last night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nBoth men had vanished in December in Egypt, where the government only reported their arrests following inquiries by Germany.<\/p>\n<p>\nTheir families had raised the alarm and have called the arrests cases of mistaken identity.<\/p>\n<p>\nEl-Sabagh, a German-Egyptian dual citizen and student in the city of Giessen, was arrested in mid-December after landing in the southern city of Luxor.<\/p>\n<p>\nEgyptian security sources said the two men were suspected of having tried to join the Daesh group\u2019s affiliate in the troubled Sinai peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>\nGerman prosecutors said last week they were looking into the Egyptian media reports on Abdel-Aziz to investigate whether there were \u201cany indications of criminal offenses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThe 23-year-old has since posted a video on Facebook in which he denied he is an extremist militant who supports violence or has any Daesh links.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe student from the university town of Goettingen also said he had flown to Egypt to visit his grandparents and retracted anything he had said in Egypt \u201cunder duress and pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nEgypt has been battling insurgency in North Sinai, which spiked following the 2013 military ouster of President Muhammad Mursi.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn February, security forces launched a major Sina operation aimed at wiping out a Daesh affiliate accused of spearheading the insurgency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN:\u00a0Egypt has deported the second of two young German men who were arrested last month as suspected militants, the Foreign Ministry in Berlin said on Monday. Eighteen-year-old Issa Ibrahim El-Sabagh landed at Frankfurt airport, reported Spiegel Online, following last week\u2019s repatriation of Mahmoud Abdel-Aziz, 23. A ministry spokeswoman confirmed that \u201cthe person arrived back in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}