(National-UAE) Swedish court documents show that a Syrian man who attacked toddlers with a knife in a park in south-east France last month served in the Syrian Armed Forces in the early years of the civil war, leading to his citizenship being denied.
The documents shared with the National shed new light on the life led by Abdelmasih Hanoun, 31, before he moved to Sweden in 2013 and his time when the government was engaged in a brutal repression of opposition members in a key Damascus suburb.
Swedish courts twice refused his citizenship request due to his active role in the Syrian Armed Forces. This rejection caused him to become depressed and revived “memories of the army,” his former wife recently told French magazine Le Point.
