[AlAhram] The 24-year-old student, who tried to enter the country through Cairo Airport to join Daesh terrorists, was deported after he gave up his Egyptian citizenshipEgypt has deported a German national of Egyptian origin on suspicion of attempting to join ISIS terrorist elements in Sinai, and is also set to deport another over similar accusations. the state official news agency MENA reported on Friday.
According to MENA, the authorities said they recently incarcerated
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German national Mahmoud Abdel-Aziz, 24, upon arriving in the country at Cairo International Airport from saudi Arabia.
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’s Islamic University, was attempting to join ISIS terrorist elements in Sinai, the authorities said.
The authorities also explained that since they determined that Abdel-Aziz had not committed any crime per Egyptian law, he was deported to Germany, in coordination with the German Embassy in Egypt, after he agreed to give up his Egyptian nationality.
MENA said that the authorities has also recently arrested another German of Egyptian origin identified as Issa El-Sabagh, 19, upon arriving at Luxor International Airport from Germany as he was found in possession of maps of North Sinai.
The authorities said they determined after investigations that El-Sabbagh shares the beliefs of the ISIS terrorist group in Germany and is connected online to some of their members.
El-Sabbagh arrived in Egypt planning to join
The government said that it did not consider El-Sabbagh an Egyptian national since he automatically lost that right in 2007 while a minor, when his father gave up his Egyptian nationality to attain German citizenship.
Legal procedures to deport El-Sabbagh to Germany have been finalized, MENA added.
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Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, who was in possession of a German and an Egyptian passport when he was detained in Cairo, was traveling with his brother Malik at the time of his arrest. The two men arrived in Cairo from Soddy Arabia
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, where they are enrolled in the Islamic studies program at the Islamic University of Medina.The men said that they were in Egypt to visit their grandparents.
Citing anonymous sources, the public broadcaster SWR reported Friday that the 23-year-old is known to authorities as a suspected radical Islamist.
Separately, a second man, 18-year-old Isa El Sabbagh from the northern German city of Giessen remains in Egyptian custody. El Sabbagh went missing on December 17. His whereabouts remained unknown until Egyptian authorities announced that he was in their custody on January 10.
El Sabbagh, who also holds dual German-Egyptian citizenship, was reportedly in Egypt to visit his grandfather when he was arrested at Luxor airport. Al-Ahram reported that authorities found maps of North Sinai, an Islamist hotbed, in his possession at the time of his arrest. Egypt has been engaged in heavy fighting in the region since Islamist President Mohammed Morsi was removed from power in 2013.