One Tajik has already been deported. As the “Kurier” first reported, the person concerned is a Tajik-Turkish woman and has also been banned from entering the country for four years.
Children already in Turkey
A complaint was not acted on in Linz on Thursday, explained Viennese lawyer Andreas Schweitzer, who represents the woman and her husband, who is also considered a suspect. The woman is now just waiting to be transferred to Turkey. Her children have already been taken to their grandmother in Turkey. However, he expressly spoke out once morest this and withdrew his client’s consent, said Schweitzer. The woman’s husband has since submitted an asylum application, which is now being processed by the Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum (BFA).
Deportation to Tajikistan
Due to a lack of strong suspicion of a crime, the four terror suspects were released from custody and transferred to a police detention center. It became known in May that all four were facing deportation. One man has already been deported to Tajikistan, according to the Interior Ministry.
The individuals are suspected of having formed a terror cell of the radical Islamist group “Islamic State Khorasan Province” (ISPK). The group is said to have planned an attack on St. Stephen’s Cathedral and Cologne Cathedral at Christmas time last year.
