A couple of months ago, I essayed about this German teenager....16 years old...."Linda"....who ran off to the ISIS war in Iraq.
It's a woeful tale of a German girl (no Muslims in the family) and she got real stupid....believing some BS, and got down to Turkey....then crossed the border and in short order...got married to some ISIS warrior guy.
The guy eventually gets killed, and she was captured about eight months ago. There's been some effort interview her, and there was talk about an Iraq case against her.
Well....today, the Focus folks updated the story. A court episode occurred, and they decided that she violated enough laws to get six years in an Iraq prison.
Most of the six year deal is about membership in the ISIS 'club'. One year was tossed onto the deal for crossing the border illegally. The Iraqis were nice about part of this deal....having this done in a juvenile court, rather than an adult court.
Part of the problem right now is that the Germans don't have any kind of extradition treaty where they could bargain on her case and get her released to some German prison (probably what she'd prefer). You would think that they'd be working on such a treaty and it shouldn't take more than a month to work out the words and agreeable terms.
My thoughts on her dire mess? Most teens never grasp the consequences in life...if you do something really stupid. Running off to a circus, or driving dad's car into a ditch, or breaking a window in the school.....all have consequences. In this case, she felt the ISIS 'club' was something worth participating in. I would agree....getting the German system to accept her back and letting spend the time in some half-way youth program would be more productive. She'd also be a great asset to have front of kids to talk about stupid behavior and joining up with ISIS as being real stupid.
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