German girl who joined Islamic State wants to go home: Report
German prosecutors have been investigating a teenage girl who went missing from Pulsnitz last summer for alleged contacts with the jihadist group about preparing a possible act of terrorism.
A German teenager, who joined Islamic State, now wants to return to her family in Dresden, Germany. Currently, the girl being held in detention in Iraq.
She regrets joining the jihadist group and just wants to come home to her family, media reported on Sunday. She was reportedly wounded on her left thigh and another injury on her right knee during a helicopter attack.
Quoting a German magazine Der Spiegel new agency Reuters reported that four German women who joined Islamic State in recent years, including a 16-year-old girl from the small town of Pulsnitz near Dresden, are being held in an Iraqi prison and receiving consular assistance.
Lorenz Haase, senior public prosecutor in Dresden, said he could confirm the teenager, named only as Linda W, had been "located and identified in Iraq" and was receiving consular support but could not say anything on her exact circumstances.
German broadcasters NDR and WDR and newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung said they had interviewed Linda W in the infirmary of a military complex in Baghdad and she told them she wanted to leave.
"I just want to get away from here," she was quoted as saying. "I want to get away from the war, from the many weapons, from the noise."
German prosecutors have been investigating a teenage girl who went missing from Pulsnitz last summer for alleged contacts with the jihadist group about preparing a possible act of terrorism.
They said last week they were checking reports that a 16-year-old under investigation for supporting Islamic State was among five women arrested in the Iraqi city of Mosul, where Iraqi forces declared victory over Islamic State earlier this month, reported Reuters.
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