She is German, she joined ISIS at 15 and wants to go home: "She was a bit naive" – ​​02/02/2019

Leonora was 15 years old when she left Germany to join the Islamic State terrorist group (ISIS) and now, at age 19, fled the last jihadist stronghold in eastern Syria and wants go home.

It was a bit naive She said, dressed in a long black dress and a beige handkerchief with white dots.

US-backed forces are fighting the remaining members of the Islamic State in a redoubt of territory in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border. Thousands of people escape.

Leonora is behind the borders of the city of Baghuz with his 2 grandchildren, among thousands of men, women and children who have fallen into disarray this week.

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The girl says that the first time she came to Syria, at age 15, I was converted to Islam for only 2 months.

"After 3 days, I got married," he said in a center for displaced people run by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), supported by the Americans.

She became the third wife of the German jihadist Martin Lemke, who had traveled to Syria with his first two women after ISIS declared his "caliphate" by taking over vast territories in Syria and neighboring Iraq.

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At first, Leonora lived in the Syrian city of Raqa, the self-proclaimed capital of the terrorist group. I was a housewife:

─It was right there: kitchen, cleaning. This kind of thing, he says, hugging the youngest of his children, who has only 2 weeks to live.

Syrian Kurdish authorities maintain detained in camps of hundreds of displaced foreign fighters who swore allegiance to ISIS and to thousands of women and children.

The Kurds have repeatedly called on Western governments to extradite their citizens, but they have not been welcomed.

Leonora remembers that life in Raqa was easy. But that changed when the Syrian Democratic Forces began to gain ground against the jihadists, with the support of the US-led coalition bombing.

Under Kurdish command, the FDS conquered Raqa in 2017 after years of brutal rule in the Islamic State, according to city dwellers, including: crucifixions and public beheadings.

"We started changing houses every week because every week they lost a city.

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When they were attacked by the SDS, Leonora stated that jihadists have abandoned their families.

They left women alone, without food. They made fun of you: you were alone in an empty city with your children.

In recent days, the SDS has cornered ISIS in an area of ​​less than 4 square kilometers.

According to Leonora, they found themselves in a small plot of land on the edge of the Euphrates River, in the province of Deir Ezzor. Until he decides to take the children and flee with her husband and his second wife, Sabina, 34 years old.

He was arrested on Thursday. According to the German press, it would have been an influential personality among the foreigners of ISIS. "He did technical things, repaired computers and cell phones," says Leonora.

With the "caliphate" almost extinguished, the girl insists:

I want to go back to Germany with my family. I want my old life. Now, I know it was a big mistake.

Source: AFP.