District Attorney Hanna Lemoine has led three of the preliminary investigations and according to her, it is difficult to proceed with the investigations. But she tells Ekot that international cooperation is underway to map the crimes of the Islamic State.
– We know that there is still a collection of evidence and analysis of evidence, and it is something that can lead preliminary investigations further, or that in some cases may arouse new suspicions at some point against a person, she says.
The Kurdish-led autonomy in northeastern Syria has previously stated that they do not have the resources to take care of thousands of foreign women and children with links to IS. Since September last year, they have deported twelve women in the hope that they will be prosecuted in Sweden.
Of the twelve women, eleven were suspected of war crimes and their children were taken into care by the Social Services. Three investigations are still ongoing because these women have recently arrived in Sweden.