SOEST – The jihad bride Angela B. from Soest was sentenced to six years in prison on Friday. According to the Public Prosecution Service, the 26-year-old woman in Syria participated in the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) for six years.
“She contributed to the death of many victims who were brutally murdered. She remained in the caliphate until the very last breath,” said the public prosecutor in the court of Rotterdam in her sentence.
B. is said to have recruited young women in the Netherlands via social media to come to the caliphate, was married to three IS leaders and offered weapons in a chat group. “She was a real IS woman, just as the murderous and ruthless organization needed her,” said the prosecutor. “She has traveled with conviction to support the armed struggle in Syria.”
OM: Conscious choice of exit
B. told the judges that she “unknowingly participated in IS”. She thought that P. was “a hero who helped all Muslims”. “When I got to Syria, I saw that what they were doing had nothing to do with Islam.” B. is said to have “tried to flee several times”, but failed. According to B., messages and a will in which she supported the ideas was because she “just had to act like she belonged to IS.”
The OM did not believe the image of the “naive girl who did not know where she was going”. According to the public prosecutor, B. wanted to join IS. “A deliberate trip. She has married several fighters, promoted IS and recruited women to marry mujahideen. In 2019 she wrote that she was fighting for the freedom of her faith and had no intention of stopping. There is no indication that she distanced himself.”
‘Silly gosling’
B. was imprisoned in a detention camp for IS women, but managed to escape. She reported to the Dutch consulate in Turkey with her son and returned to the Netherlands in early 2021. Since then, B. has been detained. In an earlier hearing, the 26-year-old terror suspect said she was “a stupid gosling” when she left for Syria. “I could not see the consequences.”
B.’s lawyer said his client “didn’t realize what she was getting into” and pointed to her troubled childhood. He asked for her to be declared completely insane. “She was receptive to sweet talk and the promise of a utopia.” Under the watchful eye of her mother and teenage sister, B. said she has no radical thoughts. “I want to put everything I have been up to there behind me. I want to remain a Muslim, but in my own way. Not very strict.”
The Public Prosecution Service is convinced that B. did indeed know which atrocities IS committed. The six-year prison sentence is the highest penalty demand against a jihad bride so far in the Netherlands. The court will rule on February 18.
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