Higher Regional Court - Duisburg massacre: maximum sentence for IS supporters
Eight months after the murderous knife attacks in Duisburg, a confessed Islamist has received the maximum sentence. On Tuesday, the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court sentenced the 27-year-old to life imprisonment for murder and four counts of attempted murder. The court also established the particular gravity of his guilt, which practically rules out his release after a minimum term of 15 years. It also imposed preventive detention.
The Syrian showed no remorse, no compassion and had announced further crimes, a representative of the federal prosecutor's office had said. He had followed the Islamic State terrorist group's slogan of turning the entire world into a theater of war.
The confessed Islamist had first killed a 35-year-old man on the street in Duisburg at night on April 9 with at least 28 stab wounds. Nine days later, he stabbed and seriously injured four visitors in a Duisburg gym.
"I wanted to kill as many people as possible", he had confessed and: "I wanted to commit even more acts until I was killed so that I would die a martyr."
The defendant's indifference was shocking for the victims and their families, the joint plaintiffs' representatives had said. The defense attorney had not filed a motion: "My client did not speak to me. I was able to slow him down on the first day, but then he made a statement that went beyond the content of the indictment."
The 27-year-old took the floor again on Monday: "They can judge what they want and how they want. That's just life here in this world. We hope that God will bring us to paradise," he said. He showed no reaction to the verdict on Tuesday.
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- The maximum penalty for terrorism-related crimes, such as the knife attacks in Duisburg, is often imposed by higher regional courts like the one in Duisburg.
- The Syrian suspect, who carried out the deadly knife attack in North Rhine-Westphalia's Duisburg, was sentenced to life imprisonment in Düsseldorf, following the terrorism process.
- The court in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, imposed additional preventive detention on the convicted terrorist apart from the minimum term of 15 years for his heinous crime of knife attack.
- Germany's legal system recognizes the exceptional gravity of terrorism-related crimes and imposes severe penalties, such as the maximum penalty for the knife attack in Duisburg.
- The Higher Regional Court in Duisburg handed down a life sentence and the maximum penalty for the knife attack in Duisburg, which was inspired by the Islamic State's terrorist ideology, emphasizing the severity of terrorism in Germany.
Source: www.stern.de
