World Muay Thai boxing champion from Germany joins ISIS in Syria
Valdet Gashi, a well-known German Thai boxer reportedly has joined Isis.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – Swiss media revealed on Saturday that a “World champion” in Muay Thai Boxing has joined ISIS in Syria, indicating that boxing fans demanded by depriving him of all sports titles in his possession, while the world champion confirmed that he is seeking to die “as a martyr through Jihad “.
According to the Swiss SRF (Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen) program, a 29-year-old German kick boxer and two-time Muay Thai world champion of Albanian origin, Valdet Gashi, has joined ISIS and left to Syria to fight for the Islamists, indicating that ” he has joined ISIS in early January 2015, but he had been concealing his whereabouts for several months, so that his family believed he was in Thailand.
“Gashi is in Syria and he is taking part in the establishment of a Caliphate, according to his belief. He is patrolling the area along the Euphrates River,” pointing out that, “He is tracking down smugglers and spies. He operates primarily near the city of Membij, close to the Turkish border. “SRF added.
According to Atef Shanoun, the president of the Winterthur mosque association, Gashi is now seeking a martyr’s death through jihad.
