The woman will testify on Monday in the Court in Glostrup, where the case against her was initiated last week.
– IS is some evil people and it has nothing to do with Islam, says the accused woman.
Her explanation is that she had been writing to a man in Turkey for a long time. She had fallen in love and traveled to Turkey to be with him.
Already the year before she managed to leave the country, she had tried to leave. At the time, she was only 17 years old.
However, she was stopped by police at the airport. It happened after her parents contacted the police and PET and explained that she would join IS in Syria.
It resulted in a conversation of concern and radicalization. During the conversation, according to the report, the woman wore the niqab and did not shake hands, but no basis was found to seize her passport.
When she finally came to Turkey in 2016, her then-boyfriend took her passport, on the grounds that he would take care of it, she explains in court on Thursday.
The woman describes herself as “very much in love” and “naive” at the time.
She says that the relationship in the beginning was good. But suddenly that character changed, and she was no longer allowed to go out without being covered.
On top of that, the boyfriend also started drinking, switching between being “aggressive” and “sorry”, the 23-year-old woman says.
It was only much later that she managed to escape from the man, after which she stayed in both Turkey and Egypt, she explains.
She was later arrested in Turkey in 2019. This happened on the basis that she was wanted by the Danish authorities.
If she is found guilty, the court must decide how long a possible sentence she should have.
Defender Jesper Storm Thygesen will argue for a reduction because she has been detained in Turkey.
The defendant explains that when she was arrested, she was placed in a cell without light and where she was to sleep on the floor. A few times a day she was brought up for questioning.
Here she was for three to four days. She was not charged.
But then she was transferred to a deportation center, where she lived in a cell with 12-13 others. She was supposed to be in the cell 23 hours a day, and had an hour in the yard, she explains.
Judgment is expected at the end of August.
Source: The Nordic Page