Lisa Smith and her two-year-old child are understood to be in a camp in Syria
“While I can’t comment on specific cases, if a person is detained in Syria they may well face serious charges there. If a person is not detained and returns to Ireland, they may face serious charges here,” Mr Flanagan told The Irish Times.
He said Ireland had strong counter-terrorism laws which “provide for prosecution here of terrorist offences committed outside the State”. Any prosecution would be very challenging. “We have our statutes but what we need is the evidence in order to ensure the conviction and that is where a real difficulty arises,” he earlier told RTÉ.
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