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Germany: Alleged IS terrorist goes on trial
[DW] The German convert is accused of taking her three children to Syria without the knowledge or consent of their father. The eldest son, trained as a child soldier aged 7, is thought to have died in a 2018 rocket attack.A court in the western city of Dusseldorf court was scheduled Friday to hear a set of charges filed by federal prosecutors against a 32-year-old mother, accused of joining the Islamic State  ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... ('IS') terrorist group. The woman, originally from Oberhausen in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) of which Dusseldorf is the regional capital, is said to have traveled to Syria in 2015 with her three small children. The six-item charge sheet includes alleged revocation of parential duties. It describes the accused handing over her son, Hamza, then aged 7, at a Islamic State (IS) military training camp as a war crime. Prosecutors also allege she forced the three children to witness a public execution and to be indoctrinated by so-called 15 YEARS IF CONVICTED If convicted, the accused, named as only Carla-Josephine S. under German law restraints on reporting, faces up to 15 years in jail. The trial in the Dusseldorf Regional Court is scheduled to proceed over 11 hearing days, spread through to April 24. The mother is thought to be the first suspected IS affiliate returned from the Middle East under consular rules applied cautiously by Germany's Foreign Office. Arriving at Stuttgart Airport in April 2019, she was immediately arrested, then at the request of NRW prosecutors. Because of the severity of the charges, the case was taken over by federal prosecutors. FURTHER CHILD BORN IN SYRIA On arrival in Syria in 2015, the woman also married an IS fighter, since deceased, with whom she had a further child. Some 50 German men and even more German women nationals are presumed to be at camps in Syria, including al-Hol in northern Syria, near its border with Iraq. The number of children with German nationality there is thought to be around 170. Related: North Rhine-Westphalia: 2020-01-27 German Authorities Find ‘Weapons Of War’ During Raid Near Radical Mosque North Rhine-Westphalia: 2020-01-15 German police raid 'Islamists' suspected of planning attack North Rhine-Westphalia: 2019-12-13 Indian couple sentenced for spying on Germany's Sikhs, Kashmiris Related: Al-Hol: 2020-01-26 Israeli ISIS militant dreams of return to Tel Aviv Al-Hol: 2020-01-26 Kurdish authorities transfer 21 orphans from Syria’s Al-Hol camp Al-Hol: 2020-01-23 'I want to be free again': ISIS member in SDF prison Posted by: trailing wife 2020-03-08 |
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