A Swedish grandfather returns from Kurdistan with 7 grandchildren their extremist parents were killed in Syria

A Swedish grandfather returns from Kurdistan with 7 grandchildren their extremist parents were killed in Syria

May 16 2019

A Swedish grandfather returns from Kurdistan with 7 grandchildren their extremist parents were killed in Syria

ARK News: A Swedish citizen returned to his country from Iraq with seven children of his daughter and her Norwegian husband, who were killed in Syria, where they were fighting alongside the Da'esh organization.

The grandfather, Patricio Galvez, confirmed to the Swedish channel "SVT", on Wednesday, that upon his arrival in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, that his grandchildren, aged between one and eight years, arrived in the country with him, and they will receive assistance from social services institutions and now they need to calm and peace.

Galvez was allowed last month to travel to Iraq to retrieve the children of his daughter Amanda Gonzalez who is a Swedish citizen, and her Norwegian husband, Michael Kramo that they were killed in Syria earlier this year.

The children had housed in a refugee camp in northern Syria before they transported to Erbil city in the Kurdistan Region.

Source: The Associated Press


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