Germany Ten years in prison for a German woman from the Islamic State who left a Yazidi girl to die of thirst
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A court in Frankfurt (southern Germany) on Tuesday sentenced to life imprisonment a member of the extremist group Islamic State (IS) who left a 5-year-old Yazidi girl who had bought as a slave in northern Iraq to die of thirst. The images of the ordeal suffered by this girl,
tied to a window in the courtyard of the house owned by the condemned man, under temperatures that exceeded 50 degrees,
went around the world. The events occurred in the summer of 2015 in the city of Fallujah, about 70 kilometers from Baghdad.
The convict, Taha Al Jumailly, 29, of Iraqi nationality, was facing charges of genocide,
crimes against humanity, war crimes,
human trafficking
and murder. He was found guilty of all of them, but genocide specifically concerned the Yazidis, so it is a
historic sentence.
It was the
first time in the world that a court judged
violence suffered by Yazidis
as "genocide"
, although UN investigators have already qualified it in those terms.
The reading of the verdict was interrupted because
the defendant fainted
just after hearing the sentence, which fully complies with what was requested by the Prosecutor's Office.
The girl's mother, Nora T., whom the convict also bought as a slave,
was in the room. Nora resides in Germany under false identity and protection. According to the AFP agency, the woman is illiterate, speaks confusedly in Kurmandji, one of the Kurdish languages, and testified that she
was repeatedly raped by jihadists
after they invaded her village in the Sinjar mountains, in northwestern Iraq, in August 2014. The condemned man bought her and the girl and took them to Fallujah, in Iraq.
The tale of the agony that she and her daughter had suffered at the time Al Jumailly and his wife, a German who joined ISIS in 2014, held them, exceeds the limits of humanity.
For this mother, the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt, ruled the payment by the convicted of
50,000 euros
in damages.
Taha Al Jumailly, who was arrested in Greece in May 2019 under a German arrest warrant, was extradited to Germany in October of that same year, and the process began in April 2020.
Al Jumailly's German wife,
Jennifer Wenish,
30, was sentenced in late October to 10 years in prison for a "crime against humanity resulting in the death" of the girl.
Wenish and Al Jumailly were married by the Islamic rite.
Wenish, a native of Lohne in Lower Saxony (northwest), grown up Protestant and converted to Islam, had traveled to Iraq to meet with "her brothers." She joined the police in Fallujah and Mosul, where she was on armed patrol. This security force controlled, above all, respect for the dress and behavior rules established by the jihadists.
In the summer of 2015, the couple bought the five-year-old girl and her mother from the Yazidi minority, prisoners of ISIS, to exploit them as slaves. According to Wenish at the trial against her, held in Munich, after many abuses, the little girl was "punished" by her husband for having urinated on a mattress; later, she was tied to a window outside the house, under the scorching sun.
The girl died of dehydration while her mother, Nora T., was forced to remain in the service of the couple.
Jennifer Wenisch was arrested by the Turkish security services in January 2016 in Ankara and later extradited to Germany. But she did not enter a detention center until June 2018, when she was detained while trying to reach the territories still controlled by the Islamic State in Syria with her two-year-old daughter. During that attempt, the defendant told the driver details about her life in Iraq.
The latter was actually an FBI informant who drove her in a car equipped with microphones. The prosecution used the tapes to accuse her.
This is the first trial related to crimes committed against the Yazidis, a Kurdish minority settled in northern Iraq.
The Yazidi ethnic and religious minority was particularly targeted by ISIS,
enslaving women and killing men,
after it invaded the Sinyar Mountains in northwestern Iraq in August 2014.
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