BERLIN: A German woman has gone on trial on allegations that as a Daesh member she allowed a 5-year-old girl she kept with her husband as a slave to die of thirst in Iraq.
The 27-year-old, identified only as Jennifer W. in line with privacy rules, is charged with murder, a war crime and membership in a terrorist organization in the Munich trial that opened Tuesday.
Prosecutors say the woman belonged to the Daesh “morality police” and she and her husband bought the Yazidi girl as a slave in 2015. The husband chained the girl outdoors as punishment for wetting her mattress and W. allegedly did nothing to prevent her dying.
The girl’s mother is a co-plaintiff in the case and her lawyers include Amal Clooney, who wasn’t in court Tuesday.
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German on trial over death of 5-year-old Yazidi slave girl
German on trial over death of 5-year-old Yazidi slave girl
- The woman’s husband chained the Yazidi girl outdoors for wetting her mattress
- Amal Clooney represents the mother of the girl
ICE agents have no operational police role in Olympics: Italy
ROME: Agents from the divisive US immigration enforcement agency ICE will have no operational role in the Winter Olympics, Italy’s interior minister said Wednesday, two days before the Milan-Cortina Games open.
ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) — which is separate from the department carrying out the US immigration crackdown — will operate within US diplomatic missions only and “are not operational agents” and “have no executive function,” Matteo Piantedosi told parliament.
He said the outrage over their presence, which included the Milan mayor warning they were not welcome in the city during the February 6-22 Games, was “completely unfounded.”
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