Marcia M. went to Syria with her husband in 2015. There the German is said to have taken part in shooting training, recruited brides for designated assassins and planned an attack. The charges against her have not yet been approved.
The federal prosecutor's office has brought charges against an alleged IS supporter who is said to have belonged to a women's battalion of the jihadist militia. The German Marcia M. traveled to Syria with her husband in 2015, the authority in Karlsruhe announced. There both would have joined the jihadist militia Islamic State (IS). They later lived temporarily in Iraq in a house whose rightful occupants fled from IS or were expelled by the militia.
M. received shooting lessons and was also instructed in the manufacture of explosives in the women's battalion in Syria. She is said to have declared herself ready for suicide attacks and made her own explosive belt. She is also said to have translated propaganda material for IS. M. had run the common household, it was said. This also served to enable her husband to participate in combat operations. The couple received money from IS every month.
M. is also said to have been indirectly involved in planning an attack on a German music festival that IS members in Syria were preparing in 2016. For this they had recruited fighters who were to be smuggled to Germany, the federal prosecutor said. M. had recruited two women in Germany who should have married and housed the assassins in Germany "to enable them to live inconspicuously here until the attack was committed."
However, the attack never took place, and the designated assassins did not get across the border. M. was arrested by Kurdish forces in 2017 and has been living in the Roj camp ever since. In October, she was arrested at Frankfurt Airport immediately after returning to Germany. She is in custody. She is accused of membership in a terrorist organization abroad and a war crime against property. The Higher Regional Court of Celle will now decide whether to admit the charges.
