Jennifer Wenisch, 30, was convicted of being a member of a terrorist association abroad, of aiding and abetting an assassination attempt, and of aiding and abetting a war crime and a crime against humanity, according to the DPA. She was originally also charged with murder and war crimes, and the prosecutor’s office demanded life for her, while defending only a maximum of two years in prison for membership in a terrorist group.
The prosecutor’s office accused a woman from the German state of Lower Saxony of staring idly in Iraq as her then husband tied a Yazid girl in a chain in the yard and let her die of heat in the heat. “After the girl fell ill and urinated on her mattress, the defendant’s husband chained her outside with a chain and let her die a painful death from thirst in the scorching heat.” the prosecutor’s office said in court. “The accused allowed her husband to do it and did nothing to save the girl,” she added.
The court found that the couple had bought the Yazidi girl and her mother as slaves
The court found that the couple bought a Yazid girl and her mother as slaves to a household in the Iraqi city of Mosul in 2015, which was controlled by Daesh at the time. According to the German media, Wenisch, who converted to Islam in 2013, arrived in Iraq in 2014 via Turkey and Syria.
In 2015, as a member of the armed “moral police”, Daesh patrolled parks in Fallujah and Mosul, looking for women who did not follow strict behavior and dress, the AP agency reported, referring to the prosecutor’s office. She was detained in 2016 when she wanted to renew the validity of her identification documents at the German Embassy in Ankara; she was subsequently deported to Germany.
The verdict, handed down by Munich judge Reinhold Baier, is one of the first to be handed down in the case of persecution of the Iraqi religious Yazid minority by Daesh members. The convicted wife’s husband is also facing a separate trial in Frankfurt am Main, where a verdict is expected in late November. The alleged torture of a Yazi girl by Daesh members was repeatedly testified during both trials in Munich and Frankfurt by his mother, identified only by the name Nora.
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