Born: 1986;

Place of Birth: Tunisia;

Gender: Female;

Nationality: German, Tunisian;

General Info:
Omaima Abdi is the former wife of two German Islamic State leaders, who is charged in Germany with crimes against humanity. The charge was a result of two investigative reporters who exposed Abdi’s return to Germany from Syria.

One of Abdi’s husbands was the infamous former German rapper and Islamic State member Denis Cuspert (Deso Dogg) who later died in Syria. Despite this, she managed to return to Germany with her children after she reported herself to the German embassy in Turkey in August 2016, claiming to be innocent.

A few years later, two investigative reporters, Harald Doornbos and Jenan Moussa, managed to track Abdi down after they found her phone in Syria. The mobile had thousands of pictures with incriminating evidence, showing Abdi with guns, her child with a weapon, and her marriage to Cuspert.

More importantly, the phone contained addresses in Hamburg, Germany. The reporters traveled to Germany and discovered that she was working as an event planner and interpreter in the country.

In April 2019, the reporters published an article for the Dubai-based pan-Arabic Al Aan TV. They also shared information about her case on Twitter. German police swiftly responded on Twitter and said they were working on the case.

A few months later, Abdi was arrested in Hamburg. Moussa told Kurdistan 24 she believes Abdi “was still an Islamic State operative at the moment of her arrest.”

German prosecutors charged her with crimes against humanity, membership to a terrorist group, and also the enslavement of a 13-year-old Yezidi girl.

“I didn’t know about the 13-year-old girl. The German police found that out later. So, the reality was even worse than my report showed,” Moussa added.

The reporter said it was significant that her investigation had an impact. “Somebody almost got away with very terrible crimes. Many countries where Islamic State people return to don’t even check the story of the Islamic State returnee,” Moussa explained.