Malika El Aroud, who lost her Belgian nationality last year after being convicted of terrorism, tried to avoid deportation by applying for political asylum in Belgium, according to La Libre Belgique website.
Media in Brussels reported that she is housed in a closed center in Bruges before being deported.
Aroud, aka the “Black Widow,” lost her Belgian nationality in November 2017, after serving an eight-year prison sentence for acts of terrorism.
She was married to two al-Qaeda militants, who died during armed clashes.
It was judged that she had “seriously failed in her obligations as a Belgian citizen.”
The woman was left with only Moroccan nationality and therefore risked being deported. She was arrested in her house on October 11 this year.
To avoid deportation, Aroud started an urgent procedure before the Foreigner’s Litigation Council (CCE).
She said she risks torture and inhumane and degrading treatment in Morocco. Therefore, she submitted an asylum application.
This week, the CCE rejected the emergency procedure. The Council said it cannot examine her application while her asylum application is still pending.
Only when it is rejected - which is likely - the RVV will be able to proceed with her application. Aroud remains in Bruges in anticipation.
Her first husband died in Afghanistan in 2000 in a suicide attack, and her second husband fled a prison sentence in Belgium to the border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan, but died there in 2012 in a US air raid.
Aroud has twice been convicted for terrorist-related offenses. She and her late husband set up a website to recruit young men to go and fight alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan.
