Overview

• Krayem stood armed in uniform at the execution site and helped restrain Muath Al-Kasasbeh before ISIS burned him alive in a cage.
• Stockholm’s trial marked the first conviction for the 2015 cage execution and underscored European courts’ expanding reach in prosecuting ISIS war crimes.
• The court ruled he acted as a co-author of the atrocity after a monthlong hearing in June and followed prosecutors’ request for a life term.
• Krayem remained silent during proceedings, with his lawyer saying he admitted presence at the scene but claimed ignorance of what would happen until cameras rolled.
• France transferred him under a March agreement and will reclaim him by December to complete prior sentences in France and Belgium.