German IS bride given two-year suspended prison sentence

A 22-year-old German lady who left to hitch the so-called Islamic State (IS) group in Syria has been sentenced.

Leonora Messing, a mom of two, was discovered responsible of being a member of a terrorist organisation and given a two-year suspended jail sentence.

The regional excessive courtroom in Naumburg heard that the lady had run away alone to hitch IS on the age of 15.

However judges didn't discover her responsible of complicity in crimes towards humanity or genocide.

Prosecutors had claimed she helped her husband "purchase" from the Kurdish-speaking Yazidi minority in Iraq to make use of as an IS slave, however the courtroom mentioned the info had not been confirmed.

Messing had allegedly posted make-up tutorials on-line earlier than changing to Islam. The teenager's father had solely found his daughter's radicalisation after her disappearance, when he got here throughout pictures of her in a niqab.

"She was an excellent scholar," Maik Messing advised native media in 2019.

"She used to go to a retirement residence to learn to the aged. She took half within the carnival as a majorette. That was when numerous the individuals we all know noticed her for the final time."

The lady was finally detained in a Kurdish-controlled camp in northern Syria and repatriated to Germany in 2020.

She claims that her husband -- Martin Lemke -- had been captured in 2019 by the Syrian Democratic Forces.