Suspected ISIS supporter arrested in Frankfurt

Police have arrested a suspected ISIS supporter at Frankfurt airport. The German national had previously been deported from Turkey. She is said to have joined the ISIS in Syria.

The Federal Public Prosecutor General has arrested a suspected ISIS female returnee at Frankfurt Airport. The German civil servant Nurten J. had last been in deportation custody in Turkey, according to the Federal Prosecutor's Office in Karlsruhe. She was arrested on Friday by officers of the Cologne police headquarters and presented to a judge on the same day. Meanwhile she is in custody.

The woman is said to have taken her daughter, who was four years old at the time, to Syria in 2015 to join the jihadist militia "Islamic State" (ISIS). There she married an ISIS follower, also from Germany, through a "marriage office" of the terrorist organization and founded a family with him.

The couple is said to have lived with their children in a total of five apartments whose rightful owners had been killed or expelled by the ISIS. In addition, the woman is said to have used the services of an enslaved Yazidi woman as a cleaner, which a friend had brought along on her regular visits on request.

The Office of the Attorney General therefore accuses Nurten J., in addition to ISIS membership and violation of the duty of care, of a war crime against property and of aiding and abetting a crime against humanity. The woman, whose age was not disclosed, had been taken into Kurdish captivity with her family. It is unclear how she arrived in Turkey from Syria.

The Islamist presumably escaped from the Hol Camp in Hesekê in northeast Syria. The camp is home to about 65,000 people from 50 different countries, including thousands of ISIS families who were apprehended by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) after the capture of the last bastion of the Islamist terrorist organization in eastern Syria last March, and is considered one of the most dangerous camps in the world. Several imprisoned ISIS supporters have already managed to escape from the camp, partly with the support of Turkey.