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Remand application for two Austrian female jihadist suspects submitted

Xinhua, January 13, 2015 Adjust font size:

The state prosecutor in Salzburg, Austria, filed an application on Monday evening to have two young women remanded in custody on suspicion of involvement in Islamic State (ISIS).

The two women, aged 16 and 17, were arrested respectively in the states of Salzburg and Upper Austria on Saturday, with allegations that they had intended traveling to Syria to take part in the holy war and to wed IS combatants.

The state prosecutor showed concerns in a press release that the two suspects might flee or reoffend. The Salzburg Regional Court has now set a 48-hour deadline for reaching a decision on the application.

In news related to the case, it appears that the 16-year-old Chechnyan origin was the instigator of the plan, having managed to convince her 17-year-old Bosnian acquaintance to join.

Federal Minister for Women and Civil Service Gabriele Heinisch-Hosek indicated that she was "very sorry" that the two girls were willing to join the holy war, and that she would check to see how the two got connected and whether they had been picked up in schools. Endi