Frankfurt / Main (dpa / lhe) – She is said to have traveled to the civil war in Syria as a 16-year-old and joined the terrorist organization Islamic State: The trial of the now 22-year-old Nasim A. began. The attorney general’s office has charged her, among other things, with membership in a foreign terrorist group. At the beginning, the alleged IS returnee with German nationality did not want to comment on the allegations. Her defenders stated that she “will defend herself in silence”.
According to the indictment, the woman traveled to Syria in 2014 and married an IS fighter there according to the Islamic rite. Her husband, who comes from Dinslaken in North Rhine-Westphalia, is said to be a member of the so-called “Lohberger Brigade”, a Salafist group that had fled from Dinslaken-Lohberg to Syria and fought there as part of a Chechen unit for “IS” . As a result, she supported and cared for her husband, who was fighting in the civil war in Syria and Iraq, when he was seriously injured in a bomb attack.
According to investigations, the young woman should also have owned a fully automatic Kalashnikov type assault rifle, which would constitute a violation of the War Weapons Control Act. According to the indictment, the couple later lived in the Iraqi city of Tal Afar in a house whose original owners were previously evicted, imprisoned or killed.
In autumn 2019, the defendant traveled to Germany via Turkey and was arrested at Frankfurt Airport. She has been in custody since then. When she was arrested, she was not very cooperative, said an officer from the State Criminal Police Office on the witness stand. She did not make any statements and kept interrupting the interrogators.
In the process, the State Security Senate has so far set 17 negotiation days until the end of February. The next appointment is scheduled for next Monday (December 14th).
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