Two integration role models charged in Sweden: they wanted to join Daesh

The two football coaching brothers Nagmi Barka and Ali Barka wanted to join Daesh

Two brothers from Gothenburg, known for their efforts as football coaches, are accused of trying to travel to the Middle East to join Daesh. The brothers were arrested at Landvetter airport in February this year as they were about to board a plane to Turkey.

On Wednesday May 4, a summons was filed at Gothenburg District Court against 44-year-old Nagmi Barka and his 40-year-old brother Ali Barka. The men are charged with offences under the Criminal Code for public incitement, recruitment and training for terrorist offences and other particularly serious crimes.

The two brothers had been arrested on February 19 this year at Landvetter Airport in Gothenburg on their way to Turkey. The arrest had been conducted by the Swedish Security Service and the National Task Force.

The brothers before the arrest in Landvetter. Photo: Police

The prosecutor states in his summons that the brothers intended to travel to Syria, Iraq or Libya via Turkey to join Daesh. .

The evidence includes a large number of conversations in which the brothers were in contact with other Islamists. However, one of the groups was infiltrated by an unknown security service, and this is how the Swedish security service tracked down the brothers’ terror plans.

During the arrest, audio files of Islamist lectures and sermons on martyrdom were also confiscated.

Ali had already been a fighter in Islamist battles.
The youngest of the brothers, Ali Barka, is suspected of having previously fought for an armed Islamist group in Syria, in 2013.

Ali Barka said in interviews with police that they had “dreamed” of joining Islamic State. Older brother Nagmi Barka also says he sympathises with the terror group because it fights against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

If I were to join the Islamic State, I would do it to fight against Bashar. And I believe that they are the only strong force in Syria to achieve that,” he said, adding that he did not consider them terrorists :
When you say Daesh, you say terrorism all the time, and I don’t think that’s true.

Football coaches for young people


Nagmi and Ali Barka have already worked as football coaches for young people in Gothenburg.

In 2019, the brothers were interviewed by the newspaper Göteborgs-Posten because of their engagement in football. They were presented as an example of successful integration, having resisted gang crime and the “dark socio-economic reality of their neighbourhood”.

Instead of becoming bad people, we have football as a leisure activity,” Ali said in an article.

Born in Sweden

Nagmi and Ali were both born in Sweden and are Swedish citizens. They have a Swedish mother and a father who came to Sweden from Libya in the 1970s. The mother was already registered as having emigrated to Libya.

The two brothers deny having committed any crime. According to them, the purpose of the trip in February was to travel to Libya, their father’s country of origin, and settle there. Both had filed a report with the Swedish Tax Agency before their departure.

“You settle in a country in the name of Islam. You become a better Muslim by practising more of what the religion says and less of what it rejects. Sweden is one of the best places in the world to be a Muslim, with freedom of religion here, but at the same time Sweden is a country with many sins compared to a country there,” Nagmi Barka tells the police.Samnytt

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2 thoughts on “Two integration role models charged in Sweden: they wanted to join Daesh”

  1. Swedish government is so naive! The Quran tells Muslims to lie to infidels and informs them that Allah is “The best of deceivers”.
    Thus Muslims must emulate their god and be LIARS.

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