At the age of 15, Leonora Messing secretly left her home in Saxony-Anhalt. She’d planned her journey down to the last detail, traveling via Turkey to Syria. She had her heart set on marrying an IS fighter - a man she had never even met before.
She ultimately escaped charges of crimes against humanity, but despite being convicted of two other offences, the woman who joined ISIS in 2015 will now likely escape prison time altogether.
The trial of a German woman who moved to Syria as a teen to join the terror group, Daesh, has begun this week, with the charges against her consisting of human trafficking and the aiding and abetting .
BERLIN: A German woman who traveled to Syria as a 15-year-old to join Daesh 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 Daesh husband enslaved a Yazidi woman in Syria in 2015. During the course of the trial scheduled to last until