German woman in dock over joining ISIS in Syria as teenager

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BERLIN - A German woman who travelled to Syria as a 15-year-old to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria goes on trial on Tuesday accused of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity.

Leonora Messing, now aged 21, is in the dock in the eastern German city of Halle on suspicion that she and her ISIS husband enslaved a Yazidi woman in Syria in 2015.

Messing's father, a baker from the German village of Breitenbach, only learned his daughter had converted to a radical brand of Islam by opening her abandoned computer and reading her journal after her disappearance. She is among the more than 1,150 who left Germany from 2011 for Syria and Iraq, according to government findings.

Messing, who had given birth to two small girls, wound up detained in a Kurdish-controlled camp in northern Syria.

 

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