Two Syrians jailed in Germany for aiding execution

August 26, 2021   

(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.

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