She wears a long white blouse and a dark hooded jacket, her long black hair is open. But she hides her face behind a folder.

Trial start at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court: Carla-Josephine S. (32 years old) is said to have gone with her three children (at that time 3, 6 and 7) to the ISIS territory in Syria. Her little son died in 2018 in a missile attack. This is not the only reason why the woman is on trial.

The German woman (32 years old) from Oberhausen has had to answer as a suspected ISIS terrorist since Friday. According to the indictment, she allegedly made her children (whose custody she did not have alone) subject to the threat of war.

She is even said to have handed her son Hazam over to a camp for child soldiers.

At the beginning of the trial S. spoke about her life. She was the child of a divorced couple and had left school after 12th grade. Her first husband was Tunisian. With him she had three children. She believed in Islam, wore the burka and wanted to emigrate to Tunisia. She had designed books like “Our beautiful Islamic holidays”.

But her husband had beaten her. “I just wanted to escape,” says Carla-Josephine in court. She then collected all the money she had from the employment office, sold her car and flew to Turkey with her children. Final destination: the war zone of Syria.

This is exactly what she is accused of, among other things: She put her children in mortal danger and gave them ideological training. When her little son expressed doubts about Salafism, she reported him to the religious police and had him chastised! S. is said to have worked in Syria as a driver for a female combat unit and to have been in possession of a hand grenade. With her children she is said to have attended public executions. S. defends herself: “It was coincidence. We had just come from the dentist.”

The judge goes, “Did you want your 6-year-old son to walk around with a Kalashanikov?” She said, “I couldn’t stop it.” When the boy had to go to camp, she advised him to bed-wetting at night so that he would be sent home again. And that’s how it happened. But supposedly the boy wanted to go back to camp on his own.

The woman is now facing up to 15 years in prison. She has already been in custody for eleven months. The Higher Regional Court has scheduled eleven trial days until the end of April.

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