(AFP) Federal prosecutors on Wednesday said they had charged a German woman with war crimes and abetting genocide with the Islamic State group in Syria by “enslaving” a Yazidi woman.
The authorities brought the charges, which also included crimes against humanity and membership of a foreign terrorist organisation, against the suspect identified only as Nadine K. on September 16 before the superior regional court in Koblenz.
The federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement that Nadine K. had travelled with her husband in December 2014 from Germany to the IS-controlled part of Syria where they joined the militant group.
Months later the couple and their daughter settled in the Iraqi city of Mosul, the former “capital” proclaimed by IS, where they hoarded weapons and established a hostel providing room and board for “single female members” of IS.
