(NL Times) Aziz A., a suspected jihadist who played a leading role in terrorist movement Jubhat al-Nusra according to the authorities, has also been linked to 19 murders in Syria in 2012, the public prosecutor revealed in a proforma hearing against the 34-year-old man on Thursday. Complicity in these 19 murders [has] been added to the suspicions against him, the prosecutor said, AD report[s].
A. came to the Netherlands with his 43-year-old brother Fatah. They are both suspected of participating in a terrorist organization, according to the newspaper.
In September 2017, A. was recognized as a fighter for a terrorist organization in De Balie in Amsterdam. He was spotted by activists from the group Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently, who were watching a documentary about Raqqa in the hands of the ISIS caliphate at the time.