The Administrative Court of Berlin has declared the expulsion of a convicted man to be lawful. The judges thus confirmed a decision by the foreigners authority, as a court spokesperson announced on Tuesday. The lawsuit was brought by a man who was sentenced to several years’ imprisonment by the Berlin Court of Appeal in June 2021 for a war crime, accessory to murder and membership of a terrorist organisation. He is due to be released from prison next year. The judges ruled that the young man continues to pose a danger to the state. The judgement is not yet final ( Case No. VG 13 K 41.19).
In the view of the Administrative Court, the fact that the plaintiff had not shown any radical Islamist tendencies recently did not change the assessment of his dangerousness. At that time, the Court of Appeal had found that the plaintiff had committed further serious violent offences, intimidated witnesses and disseminated the video sequence of an execution even after his arrival in the Federal territory.
The young man had been on trial with his father for war crimes in their homeland for around two and a half years. In the summer of 2021, the two were convicted. A life sentence was imposed on the then 45-year-old. The son, who was 22 at the time, was sentenced to five years and ten months in juvenile detention. The verdict is not yet final, but the young man is still in custody.
According to the court’s findings, the men joined the terrorist organisation Islamic State (IS) in their hometown Mosul in 2014 and took part in the public execution of a prisoner held by IS in October 2014. The son, who was a teenager at the time, allegedly spat at and insulted the prisoner on camera in a propaganda-like manner. The father, together with other IS members, brought the man to the execution site and guarded him until the victim was shot by another IS member.