(AFP) Two Syrians have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of helping to carry out an execution by an Islamist terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda, prosecutors said Monday.
Named only as Khedr A.K. and Sami A.S., the men are accused of having “jointly killed a person protected under international humanitarian law,” prosecutors said.
The men were arrested and their apartments searched in Naumburg, near Leipzig, and in the western city of Essen.
Khedr A.K. joined the Ghurabaa Muhassan group in Syria, part of the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organisation, some time before July 2012, prosecutors said.
At that time, Jabhat al-Nusra was Al-Qaeda’s sister organisation in Syria.
