(AFP) Two Syrians received lengthy jail sentences in Germany on Thursday for their role in an execution by an Islamist terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda, a court said.
Named only as Khedr A.K., 43, and Sami A.S., 36, the two men were found guilty for complicity in the deadly shooting of a lieutenant colonel with the Syrian army on July 10, 2012, the court in Duesseldorf said.
Khedr A.K. was handed a life sentence for war crimes, murder and membership of a terrorist organisation, while Sami A.S. received nine years for aiding and abetting a war crime and supporting a terrorist organisation.
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 on the men’s arrest in July 2020.
