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| Court finds defrauding ISIS a crime in Germany | ||
| 2017-08-15 | ||
A German court has found a Syrian refugee guilty of attempting to defraud ISIS, a court spokeswoman said on Monday, granting legal protection to a group viewed as turbans by the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... A judge in the district court in the southwestern city of Saarbruecken sentenced the 39-year old hairdresser from Damascus to two years in prison for trying to get ISIS operatives to transfer him up to 180,000 euro ($212,400.00). The judge ruled that the man used the false pretence that he would carry out attacks in Germany for ISIS using explosives. The money was never transferred to the man. The court rejected the prosecution's argument that the man was guilty of the more serious crime of planning to carry out attacks on behalf of the murderous Moslem organization. Both parties have appealed the ruling to the Federal Supreme Court, the court spokeswoman said. The Syrian refugee was named only as Hasan A. due to German privacy laws.
Hasan had entered Germany in December 2014 and applied for asylum in January 2015, obtaining refugee status and a residency permit, prosecutors said in a statement. More than a million asylum-seekers entered Germany in 2015, sparking a wave of protests amid a resurgent far-right. In December 2016, Hasan asked an ISIS contact in Syria to send him the money 'so he could purchase vehicles which he could load with explosives and which he wanted to drive into crowds...and blow up in order to kill unknown numbers of people who do not follow the Moslem faith'. According to messages found on his phone, the man said each vehicle would be re-painted and packed with 400-500 kilogrammes (880-1,100 pounds) of explosives at a cost of 22,500 euros each, prosecutors said. | ||
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 interesting that Hasan A was charged with two offenses which were mutually exclusive. so, if he wasn't found guilty of one crime that, in itself would be evidence that he was guilty of the other crime |
| Posted by: lord garth 2017-08-15 09:26 |
| #4 The Prosecutor needs to be removed before the judge. What moral equivalence fool is this? |
| Posted by: Frank G on the Road 2017-08-15 09:17 |
| #3 This strikes me as yet another consequence of not declaring and prosecuting full scale war. People like this judge seem to be living in a VR world where words actually have a power to change behavior all by themselves. They don't think about the guns that back things up in the real world. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2017-08-15 07:09 |
| #2 Well defrauding the turks isn't liked in Merkeland. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-08-15 06:43 |
| #1 Male Syrian hairdresser - not that there's anything wrong with it... |
| Posted by: Raj 2017-08-15 02:07 |