A plane landed yesterday in Frankfurt.....German gal gets off with her four kids. They walk up to the border-checkpoint, and she presents her passport. At that point, the cops came to take possession of her and the kids.
The issue? Well....she was a German-Syrian, who'd left a couple of years ago from Germany, and went into the war zone of Syria with her husband.
N-TV (commercial German news) picked up the story and laid out the basic landscape.
The charge? The arrest warrant centers on membership in a terror organization. The welfare office (because of the charge) has taken possession of the four kids.
The code of law affected? 129A. It basically says if you (a German citizen) goes off and becomes some member of a terror organization, you can be charged with a crime upon your return.
There are nine different areas of 129A, and you can figure...if convicted, your sentence will range from six months to five years....depending on the severe nature of your act. If anyone was harmed, you likely go to the five year point. In this case, no one says much.
I have my doubts that she had her original passport (the ISIS folks tended to take that quickly upon arrival, to ensure you don't get any stupid ideas about leaving the 'group'). So the German consulate folks had to make some replacement passport, and they knew she'd arrive (sooner or later).
My humble guess? The case will be presented in court, and unless there is some serious physical action (like she actually shot or hurt people).....she will get a lighter sentence of six to nine months, with a good bit of physiological rehab offered up. The kids? A lot may depend on her behavior, and they might all return to her at the conclusion of this.
I might go and predict that this will be a weekly thing, with more German wives returning.
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