Britons to face arrest on return from Syria
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Anyone traveling from the UK to Syria faces arrest on their return, a senior police chief said yesterday, fearing they pose a terror threat.
Manchester’s police chief Peter Fahy, who leads the Association of Chief Police Officers’ “Prevent” counter-terror strategy, said there was a “huge concern” about people traveling to Syria to fight in its civil war.
Sixteen people have been arrested on suspicion of terror offences this month after returning from Syria, compared with 24 in the whole of last year, the BBC reported.
Syria “is an incredibly dangerous place and you will be arrested and stopped at the border if you try and come back,” Fahy told BBC radio.
“We’ve stopped quite a number of people because we’re very, very clear about what will happen.”
A defector from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham warned this week that al-Qaida was training hundreds of British people fighting in Syria to become jihadists, urging them to carry out attacks when they return home.
The defector, known as Murad, told The Daily Telegraph that recruits from Europe and the United States were also being trained.
“Prevent” provides help to stop people from being drawn toward terror.
Britain’s intelligence services estimate that 500 British fighters are in Syria.
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