Germany has arrested the wife of a German rapper turned Islamic State fighter for her membership and involvement in the terror organization. The woman identified on as Omaima A. is German-Tunisian and was arrested in Hamburg.
Omaima A. had married the rapper Denis Cuspert, who went by the stage name Deso Dogg after her first husband was killed in an air raid in Kobane. Cuspert is was one of the most notorious Western fighters for ISIS, having appeared in several propaganda videos including one that apparently showed him with a man’s severed head.
Omaima A. had traveled to Syria in January 2015 with her three underaged children, to join her first husband and their father, Nadar H., in Syria. She lived under ISIS rules, raising her children following the group’s doctrines, and receiving monthly financial help from the militant outfit.
Omaima A. quietly slipped back into German society after her return to Europe, working as an event manager and interpreter after the death of her husband. She is also accused of raising her children under the extreme doctrines and ideologies propagated by the Islamic State.
