In autumn 2015 Carla-Josephine S. and her three children traveled to Syria to join the terrorist militia "Islamic State" - against the will of her husband. One son apparently died in 2018 in an attack by IS opponents. The Federal Prosecutor has now brought charges against the German citizen.
She accuses the Germans, inter alia, membership of the IS, the deprivation of three minors with concrete risk of death - including in a case of fatality - and a violation of the War Weapons Control Act. Already in June, the Karlsruhe authorities had obtained against the then 32-year-old a warrant, which had been arrested in April at Stuttgart Airport.
Defendant possessed a hand grenade
S. was therefore one of their sons in an IS training camp to train military. All children should have been religiously taught according to the militia ideology. Because he questioned her, her son is said to have been punished by the so-called religious police of the IS. In addition, the woman should have been together with her children at a public execution.
In spring 2016, S. is said to have married an IS member because her husband did not want to come to Syria as a fighter. According to the Federal Prosecutor's Office, she had the handling of an assault rifle explained to her and had a hand grenade "in order to kill as many of the attackers as possible in an enemy attack, her and her children."
The admission of the prosecution against S. and the opening of the main proceedings must now be decided by the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court.
