Process - Attacks in Duisburg: maximum sentence demanded for IS supporters
In the trial for the murderous knife attacks in Duisburg, the federal prosecution has requested the maximum sentence against a confessed Islamist. The 27-year-old IS supporter should be sentenced to life imprisonment for murder and four counts of attempted murder, a representative of the federal prosecutor's office demanded in her plea at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court on Monday.
In addition, the particular seriousness of his guilt should be established and subsequent preventive detention ordered. The man showed no remorse, no compassion and had announced further crimes.
The confessed Islamist is said to have killed a 35-year-old man in Duisburg on April 9 of this year, stabbing him at least 28 times as he left a party at night. Nine days later, he stabbed and seriously injured four visitors with a knife in a Duisburg gym.
The Syrian left Syria in 2015 after graduating from high school, came to Germany and radicalized himself into an Islamist-motivated murderer. The Islamic State's internet propaganda is aimed at frustrated young men like him, who then become assassins as "lone wolves".
In Duisburg, he lived mainly from social benefits. A lack of motivation and lack of drive had prevented him from learning the German language and finding a permanent job.
Instead, he followed the IS slogan of turning the entire world into a theater of war. According to his ideology, all non-supporters of IS are infidels whom he is allowed to kill.
"I wanted to commit more acts until I was killed so that I would die a martyr. I'm not interested in this world." This statement by the 27-year-old in the courtroom speaks for itself, according to the federal prosecutor's office.
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Source: www.stern.de
