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Frankfurt / Main (dpa / lhe) - In the trial against a suspected supporter of the IS terrorist militia who was accused of war crimes against the Yazidis, the testimony of the accused's wife at the time was continued on Friday.
The woman from Lower Saxony described a few details about life with an enslaved Yezidi and her daughter in front of the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt.
On the other hand, she did not answer questions from the federal prosecutor's office and the accessory prosecution, but instead had her lawyers refer to her right to refuse to testify.
The ex-husband of the 29-year-old from Lower Saxony is the Iraqi Taha Al-J., Who has had to answer to the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court since April last year.
He is accused of genocide and crimes against humanity, among other things.
It is particularly about the enslavement of a Yazidi woman and her five-year-old daughter.
As punishment, the man is said to have tied the girl to a window in the courtyard of his house in the scorching heat.
The child died in agony, so the accusation of the federal prosecutor.
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She found the enslavement of Yazidis "terrible," said 29-year-old Jennifer W. on Friday.
She reiterated that her then husband had hit the Yazidi woman and child.
She didn't just accept it, but asked "What's that supposed to mean," she said in her statement.
But she did not intervene because she was afraid of her husband.
She could not recognize her own role as the beneficiary of slavery: "I also don't understand why she is so bad at me," she said when parts of the Yezidin's testimony were presented to her.
A trial for the girl's death is also being carried out against the witness in Munich.
She had already been summoned as a witness in Frankfurt last year, but at the time had made use of her right to refuse to testify.
After initially remaining silent in her own proceedings, she commented on the allegations a few days ago in a statement read out by her lawyer.
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