(RTL) At the State Court on Monday morning, the judges handed down a life sentence to Steve Duarte, Portuguese national and former Luxembourg resident, in absentia.
Prosecutors had requested the maximum punishment, and the court agreed.
Duarte, who lived in Luxembourg until 2014, joined ISIS and is now believed to still be detained by Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria. He did not appear in court, and his exact location remains shrouded in uncertainty.
From radicalisation to execution video
The court previously heard that Duarte’s radicalisation began online before he travelled to Syria in August 2014. Once embedded in ISIS, he rose to prominence as a media propagandist and is alleged to have orchestrated the execution of five Iraqi Kurds in Mosul in early 2016.
