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Suspects accused of killing ‘person protected under int’l humanitarian law’
Two Syrians have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of helping to carry out an execution by an Islamist terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda, prosecutors said Monday.
Named only as Khedr A.K. and Sami A.S., the men are accused of having “jointly killed a person protected under international humanitarian law,” prosecutors said.
The men were arrested and their apartments searched in Naumburg, near Leipzig, and in the western city of Essen.
Khedr A.K. joined the Ghurabaa Muhassan group in Syria, part of the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization, some time before July 2012, prosecutors said.
At that time, Jabhat al-Nusra was Al-Qaeda’s sister organization in Syria.
On July 10, 2012, Khedr A.K. was involved in the execution of a lieutenant colonel with the Syrian army who had been captured by the group, they said.
He is accused of guarding the prisoner, who was bound by his hands and subjected to severe mistreatment, as he was transferred to his place of execution in Syria.
Both men appeared before the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) on Monday and are now in custody.
