Austrian Interior Minister Herbert Kickl has proposed to establish tribunals to conduct trials against mercenaries of Daesh* mercenaries in the Middle East.
The issue of the potential return of foreign terrorist fighters to Europe and the challenges associated with the returnees has been a pressing issue for several years. The issue was brought up again by US President Donald Trump late last week. He urged European countries to take back more than 800 Daesh fighters, captured by the United States in Syria, and put them on trial.
The minister noted that the establishment of the tribunals would allow witnesses to be interrogated on-the-spot and to receive all the information necessary for a criminal process.