Amor Sliti
Amor Sliti was a Tunisian who acquired citizenship in Belgium, was accused of involvement with terrorism there, convicted, and stripped of his citizenship after serving his sentence.[1]
He married Christine Volcke, in 1984.[1] Sliti owned and operated a garage, in Belgium.
In the 1990s he is reported to have been radicalized after meeting Tarek Maaroufi, a founder of the Tunisian Combatant Group.[1]
Sliti took Volcke and their five children to Afghanistan, via Yemen, in 1999. Volcke fled, but without being able to take her children with her. Sliti married his eldest daughter Hafsa, to a Taliban fighter, when she was just 13 years old.
Sliti and his children fled Afghanistan for Iran after the US invasion in the fall of 2001. Iran deported the family back to Belgium, in February 2002, due to lack of valid travel documents.
When they arrived in Belgium Volcke was able to take custoody of the children, while Amor faced terrorism charges, beside Maaroufi, his mentor, Nizar Trabelsi
He was deported to Tunis, in 2010.[1] He made his way to Syria, in 2014, to join the newly formed Islamic State Daesh. He took his daughter Hafsa with him. She says that by 2017 he had turned against Daesh, due to its brutality and corruption, and that they made three escape attempts, and that he was killed on the third attempt.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Pieter Van Maele (2019-10-31). "Belgische Syriëstrijdster radicaliseerde door vader, die ‘reisbureau voor jihadisten’ runde" (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 2020-09-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20200923223447/https://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20191031_04694983?adh_i=&imai=&articlehash=BEC4D637546349F1DC24C44418B4EC42949301C9882CCDD5B6074DDCDAFE9E7D6411DEB459173A15AC392B4AFF9F80757F5C922BE49B7194AC7AD773E2C2B7E4.
