Palestinian Islamist convicted of attempted murder of German officials Asylum seeker sought bloody revenge against Christians, Germans

(Jerusalem Post) A German court in the southern city of Augsburg on Wednesday sentenced a radical Islamist Palestinian asylum seeker to a 10-year prison term for attempting to murder judges and prosecutors. Haidar A., the extremist Palestinian, had previously been sentenced in 2017 for attempting to behead a refugee.

“It’s amazing how a young man can be so caught up in hate, anger and blind rage,” said presiding judge Sandra Mayer, according to the report of the local Augsburger Allgemeine paper. She added that “Haidar A. is caught in almost medieval ways of thinking, and the court has little hope that he will develop for the better.”

The court sentenced the 26-year-old Haidar for six attempted murders on Wednesday.

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