Overview
- The Stuttgart higher regional court sentenced two 36-year-old Syrians to six years each for membership in a foreign terrorist organization and acquitted them of alleged mistreatment.
- Judges found Khalil A. acted as an armed fighter and propagandist and that Faiz Al S. served as a senior investigator for the IS religious police from 2016 to autumn 2017.
- In Düsseldorf, the higher regional court gave former Iraqi fighter Omer A. S. three and a half years for IS membership based on evidence that included BKA-sourced member lists after a tip from U.S. authorities.
- Germany’s Federal Court of Justice upheld the Duisburg court’s eight-year sentence for a 29-year-old who planned in 2023 to drive a truck into a pro-Israel demonstration, making the verdict final.
- The Stuttgart and Düsseldorf decisions are not yet final and can still be challenged before the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe.