This is the first time in the world that a court qualifies these massacres of “genocide”, after UN investigators.
Le Monde with AFP
It’s a first. An Iraqi of the Islamic State Organization (EI) was judged, Tuesday, November 30, by a German court, “guilty of genocide, crime against humanity who resulted in death, war crimes and complicity of crimes of war “, especially. He was sentenced to perpetuity.
This judgment promises to recognize the abuses committed by the EI against this Kurdophone community: it is indeed the first time in the world that a court qualifies these massacres of “genocide”, after investigators of The UN. Reading the verdict has been interrupted just after the announcement of the sentence, the convict has fainted.
The Iraqi Taha al-Jumailly, who joined the ranks of the EI in 2013, was convicted of having during the summer of 2015 in Fallouja, Iraq, let myself die a girl Yepidie of 5 years he had with his mother “bought as slave”, according to the Prosecution. For this package, his ex-wife Jennifer Wenisch, 30, has already been sentenced to ten years of imprisonment last month for “crime against humanity who resulted in the death” of the child.
A campaign to recognize these crimes
The mother of the little girl, Nora B., told the bar the Calvary endured by his child, “attached to a window” outside the house by temperatures “up to 50 ° C, depending on the floor. The Iraqi intended to punish the girl, to whom he inflicted abadions, to have urinated on a mattress.
The Ethno-religious minority Yézidie was particularly persecuted by the EI, which reduced women to sexual slavery and killed men by hundreds after the jihadists had invaded the Sinjar massif, in the North- West of Iraq, in August 2014.
The mother of the girl is represented by three lawyers, including the British Libannic Amal Clooney. This one is at the head – with the Nobel Peace Prize 2018 Nadia Murad, former sex slave of the EI and from the same village as the victim – a campaign to make these crimes recognized as a genocide.