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Berlin – “Al-Quds Al-Arabi”:
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Sunday that his country was able to recover 15 of its citizens, who were in camps in northeast Syria, for humanitarian reasons, and Maas did not mention further information about 3 women and 12 children, who were returned to Germany.
The German newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported that the three women had left Germany in recent years to join the terrorist organization “ISIS” in Syria. The newspaper revealed the names of the women, and they were: Marwa, Yasmine and Leonora.
On Sunday, the German Federal Prosecutor’s Office stated that Leonora, a citizen, was arrested upon arrival at Frankfurt airport, saying: “She has been accused of joining ISIS and committing crimes against humanity.”
Maas said he was “very satisfied” with the return of the children and their mothers, and that Germany had organized the process of bringing them back to Finland, which brought back 6 children and two women. He added: “These are humanitarian cases, especially of orphans, and critical cases of children, suffering from diseases that were desperate to get out. The minister emphasized that the success of this evacuation of nationals will facilitate the follow-up and evacuation of other cases close to detention centers in Syria, and said that he will work to repeat this process in the coming weeks and months.
And the German minister added: “This good news before Christmas gives us great confidence that we will be able to recover more.”
Who are these returns?
According to the German newspaper, the women and children were released from the Kurdish camps in northern Syria. The German Foreign Ministry chartered a plane to transport three women and their children, as well as many orphans from the Kurdish camps, which had been planned for a long time, and Federal Police officers accompanied the trip. According to the data, the arrested woman, Leonora, contributed with her husband to enslaving and selling Yazidi girls, as well as helping ISIS to smuggle weapons and many other things.
This is considered the first official intervention of its kind, as the German government previously refused to restore ISIS members within direct negotiations, especially with the absence of a German embassy there, but the ministry justified its intervention by saying that the The motive was purely humanitarian after the spread of diseases in the Kurdish detention camps. According to the newspaper Bild, dozens of German citizens still languish in Kurdish concentration camps in Syria.
Leonora disappeared from her hometown of Zangerhausen in (Saxony-Anhalt) in 2015 and was only 15 years old, and the girl became the third wife of a German belonging to the organization Martin Limky, who was a prominent activist of the organization, and the girl joined her husband with ISIS, where he participated in many operations and took over Other Germans interrogated, according to the newspaper.
As for Marwa, who comes from Hamburg, she joined ISIS in 2014 and married a person named Bilal, but she escaped after her husband’s death in 2017, and she and her two children were captured, and remained in detention for the Kurdish People’s Protection Units.
As for Yasmine, in 2015 she teamed up with her brother, Yameen, who was famous for the organization and shot prisoners in the head, live, and released several videos mocking German Chancellor Merkel. After her brother was killed, Yasmine was captured, according to the newspaper.
The Federal Public Ministry investigates the three women for their belonging to a terrorist organization abroad (article 129b of the Penal Code). However, since there is no flight risk and there are no other reasons for the arrest (such as destruction of evidence), no arrest warrants will be executed against the rest except Leonora who issued an arrest warrant.
Under German law, the maximum penalty for section 129B is ten years in prison, in addition to charges of violating the law on control of weapons of war, war crimes and crimes against humanity under international criminal law.
