Icon: enlarge
Omaima A. at the beginning of the trial in May: Lived in Hamburg-Neugraben after returning
Photo:
Daniel Reinhardt / dpa
Omaima A. traveled to the "Islamic State" (IS) in Syria.
There the woman, who has German and Tunisian citizenship, married the Salafist Denis Cuspert, who had made a name for himself in Germany as rapper Deso Dogg.
After this is said to have died, A. returned to Germany.
Before the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg she is tried, among other things, because of membership in a foreign terrorist organization.
In the proceedings, the Federal Prosecutor's Office demanded a four-year and ten-month sentence against the widow of the former IS fighter.
The allegations against the 36-year-old had been confirmed, said the representative of the Karlsruhe authority in his plea.
The defendant stated in court that she only wanted to see IS in Syria and then found that it was not for her.
But this representation is implausible.
You confessed to the terrorist organization in a video, a photo and a phone call.
13-year-old Yezidi held as a slave?
The Federal Prosecutor's Office accuses Omaima A. of having followed her husband to Syria with three small children at the beginning of 2015 and of having joined the terrorist militia.
In doing so, she also violated her duty of care and upbringing.
After the death of her first husband in the spring of 2015, she married his boyfriend Cuspert, who was also reported to have died later.
Cuspert joined IS in 2014.
In the USA he was on the terror list.
The former gangster rapper ("Deso Dogg") is said to have been killed in an air strike in Syria in January 2018.
At times Omaima A. also owned assault rifles and thus violated the War Weapons Control Act.
Born in Hamburg, she is also accused of human trafficking and a crime against humanity because she is said to have kept a 13-year-old Yezidi woman temporarily in her household as a slave.
After her return from the IS area in August 2016, the defendant lived unmolested by prosecution in Hamburg, dressed in western clothes and pursued a job.
Only after research by an Arab journalist was she arrested in September 2019 and has been in custody ever since.
The trial is due to continue on September 28 with the defense attorney's plea.
The court wants to give its verdict in early October.
Icon: The mirror
apr / jpz / dpa
