NIGEL Farage has said there is a real risk that Shamima Begum could pay people traffickers to put her on a small boat and cross the Channel.
Speaking on GB News, he said: “Shamima Begum, who left London with two friends and went off age 15 to marry into ISIS; people were absolutely horrified that it could be happening. But what was even more horrifying was in 2019 when she was 19 years old…
“She was okay with British citizens and others and Americans being beheaded. Absolutely okay. Unsurprisingly, the British government, and this doesn’t happen very often, took away her citizenship on the basis she’d chosen her state, Islamic State.
“But within a couple of years, she’d rather changed her image.
“The British government’s position has been unchanged since that moment, five years ago now. And of course our friends, the European Court of Human Rights, they’ve been involved too, questioning whether it was right for us to take away citizenship on the basis that she could have been a victim of trafficking.
“But now we learn she’s planning to escape from the camp she’s in Syria…
“Basically, what they want to do, they want to escape into Turkey, go to the British Embassy and assume that Turkey would deport them from that country back to the UK.
“Either way, she’s plotting. Her mates are plotting to get her money to pay a trafficker to somehow get her back to the United Kingdom.
“But what about this? What if they paid the trafficker a bit more money, and what if they put her on a boat somewhere on a northern beach and she landed at Dover? What would the government do then?
“From 2019 to 2021 she certainly gave the impression of being a different woman.
“I don’t want her back. I make no bones about it. Jacob Rees-Mogg takes a different view. He thinks actually she should come back and face British justice.
“I remember going right back to the beginning of 2015 of the crossing of the Mediterranean. ISIS then openly said, we will use these routes to smuggle our operatives into Europe. And there is absolute evidence that that has happened.
“Mercifully, not in huge numbers or huge numbers that we know of.”
