Ex-PP councillor fighting ISIS in Syria trying to get home to be with his sick wife
Thursday, October 8, 2015 @ 12:24 AM
A FORMER councillor for the PP in a Basque Country town is in Syria fighting against the so-called Islamic State.
Rodrigo García Saenz de Cortazar, on the council in Alegría-Dulantzi in the province of Álava – the capital of which is the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz – until this spring joined the international military group The Lions of Rojava, based in the Kurdish region of Syria.
He is now trying desperately to get out and return to Spain because of his wife's poor health.
García Saenz went to Syria in June for the second time, having pledged to fight against the terrorists for seven months, but now needs to get home as his wife, who is still in Spain, needs medical treatment.
The ex-councillor is hoping to get out of Syria via Turkey, and has contacted the Spanish embassy in the latter country for assistance.
His wife has already obtained him a visa to return to Spain, and García Saenz himself has been referred by the embassy to a checkpoint near Kobane, in Kurdish Syria.
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