The couple allegedly bought two children at an Iraqi market and kept them as slaves. The accused are alleged to have been members of the “Islamic State” group and were detained in Bavaria in April.
Germany’s federal prosecutor on Monday charged an Iraqi couple with enslavement, torture and war crimes, after they allegedly kept two young Yazidigirls as slaves and sexually and physically abused them.
The couple, identified as Twana H.S. and Asia R.A. in line with German privacy law, were arrested in the southern state of Bavaria in April.
The two are also suspected to have been members of the “Islamic State” (IS) extremist group in Iraqand Syriabetween October 2015 and December 2017, the prosecutor said in a statement.
They allegedly kept a 5-year-old Yazidi girl as a slave starting in late 2015, and a 12-year-old from October 2017.
This is not an aberration. It is Islam.
