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Düsseldorf Court Sentences Former IS Member to Five Years for Membership and War Crimes Against Property

Appeals to the Federal Court of Justice remain possible.

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Das Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf hat einen früheren IS-Anhänger zu einer Freiheitsstrafe von fünf Jahren verurteilt. Er wurde unter anderem wegen Mitgliedschaft in einer terroristischen Vereinigung im Ausland verurteilt, wie das Gericht mitteilte.
Vor dem Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf hat der Prozess gegen einen Iraker begonnen, der im Irak anderthalb Jahre lang für den IS gekämpft haben soll. Das Gericht setzte Termine bis Anfang Dezember an.

Overview

  • The Higher Regional Court found the 49-year-old Syrian worked in IS real-estate administration until 2016 and helped seize three houses.
  • He was convicted of membership in a foreign terrorist organization and war crimes against property, but acquitted of other alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity and aiding genocide for lack of evidence.
  • Prosecutors sought seven years while the defense asked for a suspended term; the judges imposed five years, citing his earlier voluntary disengagement as a mitigating factor.
  • Claims that he recruited his 13-year-old nephew and enabled the sexual exploitation of Yazidi women were not substantiated in witness testimony.
  • He joined after IS took his hometown in 2014, left before regime recapture, reached Germany in 2021 via Turkey and the Balkans, lived in Moers, and remains in custody until starting his prison term.