A Syrian has been arrested in Essen who allegedly belonged to a killer squad of the jihadist militia Islamic State. The arrested IS terrorist is the asylum seeker Asmael K. (32) from Syria, who, according to BILD information, is said to have been living undisturbed with his brothers in the Frohnhausen district of Essen for several years.
The Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office announced in Karlsruhe on Wednesday that the combat unit had kidnapped and executed enemy fighters and other people. Asmael K. is said to have joined ISIS in Syria at the end of 2013 and sworn allegiance to the terror organisation.
The ISIS executioner was arrested on Monday by officers of the Federal Criminal Police Office and brought before the investigating judge on Tuesday, who ordered that he be remanded in custody. According to the Federal Prosecutor’s Office, K. is “urgently suspected” of membership in a terrorist organisation abroad.
Before his arrest, he had already been under surveillance for several days by special units of the Federal Criminal Police Office. It is about membership in a terrorist organisation, i.e. the Islamic State.
According to BILD information, Asmael K. belonged to a particularly brutal IS combat unit in Syria, but has not attracted attention in Germany for Islamism or state protection offences, but only for minor drug offences.
ISIS had taken control of large parts of Syria and Iraq in 2014 amid the civil war in Syria, but gradually lost these areas. After a US-led coalition expelled the terrorist militia from its last bastions in Syria in March 2019, most remaining ISIS Islamists retreated to the Syrian desert.
From there, they continue to attack Kurdish fighters as well as soldiers of the Syrian government army. The US forces, in turn, are targeting the jihadists and their leaders in operations.
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