in Egypt are set as 18-year-old man from Giessen back in Germany. A spokeswoman for the foreign office confirmed on Monday. The North African country had deported the young man earlier, a media report according to because of alleged Links to Islamists.

The Frankfurt public Prosecutor’s office has a criminal investigation on suspicion of preparing a serious state endangering initiated the act of violence, a spokeswoman said. This is an ongoing investigation, information as to a possible statement of the young man could not do the justice spokeswoman.

Online Links to IS-members

The state-controlled newspaper “Al-Ahram” published on Monday photos of the Gießeners at the security check and at the Check-in at the Cairo airport. According to the report, a survey of the Egyptian authorities should have shown that the young man believe in the ideology of the terrorist militia Islamic state (IS).

In the report, the Giessen have Online Connections to the IS members had come to Egypt to terrorist elements in the North of the Sinai-to join Peninsula. The man’s family assumes that this is innocent.

police officers in the reception

The “giessener Allgemeine Zeitung” and the “mirror” according to the young man arrived on Monday morning at Frankfurt airport. Officials had taken him there in reception, and then asked, it was the part of the police.

The father raised serious allegations against the Egyptian authorities. On the published pictures of bruises on the right eye to be seen. His son had been tortured and suffered from physical and mental pain. “I’m sure that my son (…) is debt-free,” wrote the father of the German press Agency, according to information from Cairo. He was flown on Sunday to Egypt, to inquire about the whereabouts of his son. The man had also launched an Online Petition for the release of the Gießenerr. In the meantime, have involved more than 59.000 signatories.