Two women on trial in Europe for joining ISIS

BERLIN / ROTTERDAM, Netherlands – A Dutch court and a German court announced the trial of two women accused of joining the terrorist organization ISIS, as the judiciary proved their travel to Syria and their affiliation with the terrorist organization.

The Federal Prosecution Office in Germany announced on Friday that a woman named “Verina M.” had been formally charged with joining ISIS while traveling to Syria with her young son.

“She was also charged with endangering a child, violating her duty of care as a parent and violating gun control laws,” prosecutors said.

The prosecutor’s statement indicated that she had traveled to Turkey in 2015, and then traveled to the Iraqi city of Mosul, where she joined ISIS, and later moved to Raqqa in Syria.

In the Netherlands, the Dutch court in Rotterdam sentenced a Dutch woman, “Angela B,” to four and a half years in prison for her affiliation with ISIS.

Angela was 18 years old when she went to Syria in the year 2014, according to the Dutch regional De Stentor newspaper.

Angela stayed with ISIS until its eventual defeat and ended up being held in a camp. She escaped from the camp with her son with the help of a smuggler and eventually traveled through Turkey to reach the Netherlands, where she was arrested.