Songül G. covers her face with a file cover so that the cameras in the hall cannot record her. But she shows something of herself to the viewers behind her: they can see a picture drawn by the defendant and placed in the folder; a Batman effigy in a black cape with red boots. Maybe she sees herself as a superhero.But perhaps she also painted the picture for her son, who is allowed to witness the judge Petra Wende-Spors reading the verdict against his mother shortly after 11 a.m. in the audience this Monday: Songül G. is to serve five years and nine months because of the support of a foreign terrorist organization, three months longer than demanded by the Federal Prosecutor’s Office.” You wanted to help bring terror to Germany”, says Wende-Spors in her verdict to the accused. The chamber had “no doubts” that she was ready and willing to smuggle a Syrian IS-follower into Germany and give him shelter here so that he could commit an attack here.Songül G. from Bremen converted to Islam in 1999. She has three children aged two, eight and 16 who have three different fathers. In 2015 she began watching IS propaganda videos and joined Islamist chat groups. There she met Marcia M., an Islamist from Hildsheim who had joined the IS in Syria.A close friendship developed with Marcia M., both dreamed of living in the “Caliphate” of the IS and wished death to the unbelievers. Once the always veiled Songül G. confessed that she wanted to “strangle” the “unbelievers” that were staring at her and that she needed an “outlet” for her anger.Marcia M. tried to persuade her friend to leave for Syria. And Songül G. obviously prepared for it. She ordered electronics, suitcases and functional clothing on the Internet, cancelled the son from school and stopped paying rent. She discussed with Marcia M. whether it would be possible to receive German child benefit in Syria as well. Richterin Wende-Spors repeatedly emphasises how reprehensible it is to travel to the war zone with the three children in view of the expected situation: “You knew exactly what to expect there, and yet you wanted to take your children with you. Files could be restored on her computers, which show how children must cut off the heads of prisoners of the IS or shoot in the face.According to the court, the ” outlet ” for her anger was in the planning of the attack “against a major musical event in the Hildesheim area”, in which the defendant had been involved “at the latest since autumn 2016”, in which she had also agreed to give shelter to a prospective assassin.According to the prosecution, Songül G. had already previously agreed to marry one of the potential assassins, according to the surveillance of Messenger services. Two assassins, disguised as refugees, set off from Syria, but were intercepted and arrested in Turkey. When the police issued an exit ban for her in early 2018, she knew that the authorities suspect her of a crime. She immediately reversed her escape plans. A “serious turning away of the accused from the IS did not take place”, the presiding judge states.In the same year Songül G. began an apprenticeship as a truck driver sponsored by the employment office, where she also became known for her extremist remarks. During a driving lesson, she is said to have answered the teacher’s question about where she actually wanted to drive: “I’m driving over the nearest Christmas market.”
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