French ISIS widow wants ‘to go home’

ROJ (Syria): In a detention camp for people linked to the Islamic State group, French mother-offive Emilie Konig has swapped her all-engulfing black robe for a sweatshirt and baseball cap.

The 36-year-old widow, who is on UN and US blacklists of dangerous militants accused of recruiting ISIS fighters and inciting attacks in the West, says she’s now desperate to go home.

Joining ISIS “wrecked” her life, said Konig, who was captured in late 2017 by Kurdish forces battling the jihadists in the eastern Syrian town of Shadadi.

“I want to go home to France. I have my family there. I want to start my life over and right my mistakes,” she said.

Konig, who frequently appeared in ISIS videos, including in a 2013 clip showing her training with a shotgun, now lives in the Kurdish-run Roj camp here.

Now sporting a hooded top, faux leather leggings and white hightop trainers, she said: “I’m already dressing... to get used to my returning.”

She hoped to work as an accountant back in France.