But Steffen Nielsen, a crime prevention advisor and part of a multi-agency task force tackling radicalisation and discrimination in Aarhus, said authorities there have instead adopted a soft-hands approach and were providing help to about 10 out of 15 people who had returned from Syria. We are actually embracing them when they come home. Unlike in England, where maybe youre interned for a week while they figure out who you are, we say Do you need any help? Nielsen told Al Jazeera. While accepting that some returnees did pose a threat that would require security services to kick down doors, Nielsen said most needed support to recover from an often terrifying and demoralising ordeal. A lot of guys who come home have experienced a loss of innocence and some sort of loss of moral belief. They thought they were going down there for a good cause. And what they found was thugs who are decapitating women and children and raping and killing people, and everything smells and youve got diarrhoea from drinking the water and its not the great cosmic battle for al-Sham that youd imagined.
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