Afrin ... an armed group demanding the family of a young Kurdish kidnapper to pay 40 thousand dollars as a ransom

Afrin ... an armed group demanding the family of a young Kurdish kidnapper to pay 40 thousand dollars as a ransom
ARK News: A pro-Turkish army armed group in Afrin Kurdistan of Syria demanded the family of a young Kurdish kidnapper, who is from Paneraka village belonging to Rajo town, to pay 40 thousand dollars for his release, after he was handed over to the Military Police in Izaz.
"The faction of Tajamuh el-Adil sent pictures of the young Kurdish kidnapped, Younis Ismael Ismail to his family, where the faction initially asked to pay 100 thousand dollars for his release, and after difficult negotiations by his wife's brother with the faction, the ransom reached 40,000 dollars, but he was not released and he was handed over to the Military Police in Izaz town and his fate is still unknown”, a private source from the city of Afrin reported.
“Ismail was kidnapped at the end of last July, when he was inside the sewing workshop in the neighborhood of Mahmudiya in Afrin city, and that he was severely tortured and lost his mind, because he was already suffering from asthma, noting that he was detained in the prison of Izaz, and he was handed over to the Military Police”, the same resource said.
Pointing that Younis Ismael Ismail, 30 years old, is married and has five children and from the village of Paneraka in Rajo town. He lived in the village of Medan Akbas, then he moved to Afrin city to work in a sewing workshop in Mahmudiya neighborhood, he has nothing to do with political organizations and parties, and he was arrested only for ransom from his family.
"Many cases of arrests and kidnappings by the pro-Turkish army armed groups come in the context of large financial ransoms demanded by abductees in exchange for their release," the source added.
It is noteworthy that pro-Turkish army armed groups, which participated in the occupation of the city of Afrin, committed dozens of crimes against the residents of Afrin, such as murder, kidnapping, robbery, theft, burning crops, and appropriating citizens' property, as well as the destruction of archaeological and religious monuments and deliberately set fire to trees of the forests aimed at destroying the infrastructure of the area.

M. Qadi

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