Sabina Selimović and Samra Kešinović

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Sabina Selimović (February 16, 1999–2019?) And Samra Kešinović (September 25, 1997–2015?) Were two girls from Austria who joined the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria in April 2014 at the age of 15 and 16 respectively  ( IS). Both are believed to be dead.

Her parents were Bosnian immigrants who fled to Austria before the war in Yugoslavia .

The two girls read about jihad on the Internet and radicalized themselves in Vienna's Altun-Alem Mosque , where the Salafist Ebu Tejma preached as an imam. They left their parents' homes on the morning of April 10, 2014 and flew from Vienna-Schwechat via Ankara to Adana . From there they traveled 100 kilometers to Syria and joined ISIS. In the evening the parents found a farewell letter: “We are on the right track. We're going to Syria, fighting for Islam. See you in paradise. ”Photos were later posted of them wearing burqas and carrying assault rifles.

A friend of the two told Paris Match that both of them were married by Chechen fighters. They wanted to go back to Austria, but were afraid of the prison in Austria and of being beaten and locked up by their men.

The British tabloid Mirror reported that, according to a Tunisian woman, Kešinović was abused as a sex slave for new recruits. According to the Daily Telegraph , she was reportedly slain in November 2015 after trying to flee from Raqqa , the capital of ISIS. However, the same source had previously reported that Selimović was killed in fighting in September 2014, but this was probably not true. According to Selimović's mother's lawyer, she probably only died in the battle for the last IS stronghold of Baghouz in March 2019. The actual whereabouts of both persons must - as of May 2019 - be considered unclear.

Selimović is said to have two children with her husband - nothing is known about his whereabouts either. Since 2019, Selimović's mother has been trying to get the two children from a Kurdish internment camp in Syria to Austria. This turned out to be particularly difficult because the Kurdish militias demanded confirmation from the Republic of Austria that the two children had Austrian citizenship . However, after no birth certificate had been issued for the children and therefore the motherhood of Selimović - which under Austrian law would have automatically transferred her citizenship to her children - a DNA test was necessary.

Individual evidence

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  6. ↑ Austrian girls who joined IS 'want to come home' . In: The Times of Israel , October 11, 2014. Retrieved November 30, 2015. 
  7. ↑ Samra at-elle été battue à mort par Daech? . In: Paris Match , November 25, 2015. Retrieved November 30, 2015. 
  8. ↑ Elle Griffiths: ISIS teen poster girl Samra Kesinovic became "sex slave for jihadis" . In: mirror . December 30, 2015 ( mirror.co.uk [accessed May 27, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Justin Huggler: Teenage Austrian 'poster girl for the Islamic State' killed by group for trying to escape . In: The Daily Telegraph , November 25, 2015. Retrieved November 30, 2015. 
  10. ^ Duygu Özkan: The Austrian children of IS. In: DiePresse.com . May 2, 2019, accessed May 4, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Mother of girls from Vienna in Syria wants to bring grandchildren home. In: Tiroler Tageszeitung (TT.com). May 3, 2019, accessed May 4, 2019 .