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Returning ISIS sentenced to four years in prison

2021-10-29T13:20:24.392Z


Passive wife or active Islamist? In a book, IS returnees Kim Theresa A. turned away from the IS terrorist organization. She has to go to jail anyway.


Passive wife or active Islamist?

In a book, IS returnees Kim Theresa A. turned away from the IS terrorist organization.

She has to go to jail anyway.

Frankfurt / M.

- The Higher Regional Court (OLG) Frankfurt sentenced a 32-year-old German returnee to IS to four years in prison on Friday.

The court saw, among other things, the membership of Kim Theresa A. in a foreign terrorist organization as proven.

The 32-year-old left for Syria with her then-husband in 2014 to join the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS).

In their verdict, the judges went beyond the demands of the Attorney General's office, which had requested three years and three months imprisonment.

The defense had demanded a much lower sentence, without specifying a specific sentence, and in their pleading had drawn the picture of a woman who followed her husband into the caliphate.

A. was defended by the left-wing politician Gregor Gysi, among others.

The State Security Senate saw in its decision a "solid Islamist-fundamentalist attitude" that Kim Theresa A. had appropriated in the years after 2009.

“She did not travel to Syria in 2014 out of love for her husband,” said Chief Judge Christoph Koller.

Rather, she wanted to help consolidate IS rule on the ground.

In addition, Kim Theresa A., who converted to Islam in 2009, had contacts with the Islamist scene in Germany before she left the territory under IS rule and was well networked there.

She had a corresponding influence on her husband, whom she met in Germany and married in 2013 according to the Islamic rite.

In Syria, she by no means only looked after her husband, but ran a chat group with other women for ISIS sympathizers in Germany who were also considering emigrating to Syria and learned from their husband how to use an assault rifle and a Kalashnikov and added the weapons that were always loaded had.

She set out "voluntarily and on her own initiative" to help build an Islamic state, the verdict said.

In Syria, she followed her husband to his respective locations and supported his fighting.

The couple lived off the services of the terrorist organization, according to the court.

In addition, the couple received a monthly sum of money from the "IS", with half of the accused being expressly intended as remuneration for their work as the wife of an IS fighter.

When A. decided to leave the IS area in the spring of 2016, she by no means broke away from the organization's ideas, but realized that the situation in the region was becoming increasingly dangerous given the advance of opposing forces, according to the court.

The court assessed the fact that A. voluntarily broke away from IS and published information as mitigating.

In her appearance in court, she credibly showed remorse, even if she downplayed her own role.

She was not a follower, as she presented herself.

The court relied on testimony, but also on passages in her book "Maryam A .: My life in the caliphate".

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The stocky 32-year-old with long dark hair followed the grounds for the judgment outwardly unmoved and attentive.

Occasionally she glanced over at her lawyers.

When she was led into the courtroom, she still looked nervous and clung to the back of her chair as if seeking support.

The court had previously discussed the life of the accused before turning to radical Islam.

A.'s youth had been shaped by family problems and difficult social circumstances, they had neither a school leaving certificate nor vocational training, and lived off odd jobs.

With their verdict, the judges largely confirmed the individual points of the indictment.

According to this, A. had made himself punishable not only because of membership in the terrorist organization, but also because of a war crime against property, the requisitioning of abandoned apartments, and the violation of the War Weapons Control Act.

The judgment is not yet final - the revision is expected.

dpa

Source: merkur

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