The Federal Prosecutor's Office accuses the husband of IS returnee Jennifer W. Genocide. The painful death of a Yezidi child was embedded in the plan of the terrorist militia Islamic State to exterminate the Yazidis, a spokesman for the highest German prosecution in Karlsruhe explained. The Iraqi named Taha A.-J. It also accused of crimes against humanity, war crimes and human trafficking.
Together with his German wife Jennifer W., who comes from the Lower Saxony Lohne, Taha A.-J. In 2015, the five-year-old child and his mother were bought as slaves from a group of Yezidi IS prisoners. Mother and child were supplied by the two according to the Federal Prosecutor's Office only insufficiently with food and water.
According to the investigators, Taha A.-J. the Yazidis to practice their own religion and forced them to convert to Islam, to read the Koran and to pray regularly. When the girl went to bed sick, the Iraqi should have chained it in the Iraqi Fallujah as punishment in the blazing sun. There, the child was thirsty in the scorching heat.
Jennifer W. should have watched idly
The alleged IS member Taha A.-J. was caught in Greece in May, transferred to Germany on Wednesday and arrested at Frankfurt airport on the same day. On Thursday, an investigating judge of the Federal Court ordered pre-trial detention.
The prosecutor's office had already filed charges against Jennifer W. in December before the State Security Senate of the Higher Regional Court of Munich. She is in court because she should have watched the action inactively. In addition to membership in the terrorist organization IS, you accuse the prosecution of murder and war crimes.
According to the principle of world law, the most serious international crimes can be punished anywhere, irrespective of the crime scene and the nationality of the perpetrator, including in Germany.
