(Reuters) Dutch police this week arrested a 29-year-old Syrian alleged former commander of the Ahrar al-Sham Islamist insurgent group on suspicion of having committed war crimes, the public prosecutor’s office said on Friday.
Police arrested the unnamed man on Tuesday in a center for asylum seekers in the north of the country. He is accused of war crimes for posing with the body of an enemy fighter and kicking at another corpse during fighting in Hama in 2015.
According to the prosecutor’s office, the suspect was at the time “a commander of the terrorist organization Ahrar al-Sham.”
The suspect presented himself at the Dutch asylum seekers’ center earlier this month, but had already been flagged by German authorities after briefly registering as an asylum seeker there in 2015.
