Frankfurt (dpa/lhe) – The Frankfurt Public Prosecutor’s Office has filed charges against a 29-year-old woman at the Higher Regional Court on suspicion of membership in two terrorist organizations and violation of the duty of care and education. She is said to have initially moved in the Salafist scene in the Rhine-Main area and left for Syria with her husband in 2013, as the prosecution announced on Monday.
There, the accused, who comes from the Hochtaunus district, is said to have initially joined the terrorist organization Jabhat al-Nusra. According to the investigation, she is said to have taken care of the household and the daughter born in 2014 – and thus enabled the man to be active as a fighter. After a stay in Turkey, the three are said to have left for the territory of the Islamic State (IS) at the end of 2014 and joined this terrorist organization.
“In the following years, the accused is said to have followed her husband, who joined IS as a fighter after military training and was said to have worked in its financial administration, to his respective locations and enabled his work for IS by managing the household have,” said the Attorney General’s Office.
The mother was aware “that she would put her then nine-month-old daughter in great danger if she was taken back to a civil war zone,” it said. The girl is said to have been seriously injured in combat operations. The upbringing in the sense of the IS ideology, growing up under the inhumane despotic rule of the IS and not attending school are said to have caused considerable dangers for the child’s development.
According to the information, the woman was arrested in 2019 and she was in a Kurdish prison camp with her daughter and other children until March 2022. After being returned to Germany, she was arrested at Frankfurt Airport in March 2022. She has been in custody since then.
