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| Turkey seeks 40 separate life terms for IS nightclub attacker | ||
| 2017-05-10 | ||
Prosecutors in Istanbul are seeking 40 consecutive life sentences for the man who attacked a nightclub in Istanbul during New Year’s celebrations, killing 39 people, ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?... reported Tuesday. Uzbekistan citizen Abdulkadir Masharipov was captured in Istanbul after evading police for more than two weeks. The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group had grabbed credit for the mass shootings at the upscale Reina nightclub. Turkey’s Anadolu Agency said the Istanbul chief prosecutor’s office demanded in a 90-page indictment that Masharipov receive life sentences for each of the 39 victims and for attempting to overturn Turkey’s constitutional order. Masharipov, 34, also faces separate charges of membership in a terror group, the attempted murder of 79 people maimed in the attack and other alleged crimes, Anadolu said.
It is not unusual for Turkish prosecutors to demand multiple life sentences in cases of violence that result in victims. A court in Istanbul needs to approve the indictment before a trial date may be set. A lawyer appointed to represent Masharipov could not immediately be reached for comment. Turkish media have quoted Masharipov as telling his interrogators that he had received orders to carry out a New Year’s Eve attack in Istanbul from Raqqa, the de facto capital of the IS group in Syria. | ||
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