(AP) A court in western Germany has convicted a 39-year-old man of providing support to Islamist groups in Syria.
The Duesseldorf regional court on Friday sentenced the German-Tunisian defendant, whose name wasn’t released for privacy reasons, to five years in prison.
Judges concluded that the man had sent night vision devices, firearms-cleaning equipment and ambulance vehicles to the militia group Ahrar al-Sham. He is also accused of having provided propaganda support to the Islamic State group.
The defendant’s lawyers had sought to have their client acquitted.
