In a first, suspected woman Isis member returned to Germany
- Woman named only as Laura H is first adult female Isis member to have been returned through official channels to Germany from Syria
- She allegedly posted an online call for aid donations for Syria that in reality went to a fundamentalist group
A woman believed to have belonged to Islamic State (Isis) has arrived back in her home country Germany with her three children, police said on Sunday.
The woman is the first adult female Isis member to have been returned through official channels to Germany from Syria.
Named only as Laura H, the 30-year-old from Hesse state arrived at Frankfurt airport late on Saturday on a flight from Erbil in Iraq.
While Laura H was not immediately arrested on arrival, she remains the subject of an investigation on suspicion of membership of a terrorist organisation as well as failure to properly care for her children, news weekly Der Spiegel reported, citing security sources.
Her passport has been confiscated and she has been banned from leaving the country, while her children are being entrusted to a close relative, Spiegel added.
According to the magazine, she travelled in 2016 from Giessen in central Germany to Syria with two of her children and her husband, a Somalia-born US citizen, where she joined Isis.