IS returnees will not face arrestin Germany

BERLIN: Nine German nationals suspected of supporting the Islamic State group who are being deported from Turkey this week will not face immediate arrest when they return, German security sources said Wednesday. The sources said there was insufficient evidence for warrants to be issued against the nine, prompting criticism from opposition politicians who said the deportations have caught the government unprepared. The deportees, who are due to arrive on Thursday or Friday, include a family of seven from Hildesheim — a town in central Germany that has in the past been a focus of police raids against Islamist extremists. The father is a German of Iraqi origin referred to by the sources only by his first name, Kanan, and is known to be an Islamist radical, the sources said. The other two are the wives of IS fighters, they said.