The investigators had found dozens of videos on A.'s mobile phone. In them, preachers and members of the Islamic State (IS) call for jihad, sometimes also to kill "infidels". One video calls for the "slaughter" of "infidels" with a knife. In Passau, A. had regularly visited a mosque which was assessed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution as Salafist. And during the trial, witnesses had reported that Abdalrahman A. had urged others to adhere to strict interpretations of Islam. https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/ice-messerangriff-islamist-1.5721319
The Syrian Palestinian now has to spend 14 years behind bars for attacking fellow passengers with a knife in an intercity express train from Passau to Nuremberg last year. Attempted murder and bodily harm were the charges. The court did not believe the lawyer’s argument that the man was mentally ill.
The knife attack committed in November by a Syrian Palestinian in an ICE train from Passau to Nuremberg has been dealt with. It resulted in a verdict that is not entirely satisfactory for both the legal defence and the Federal Prosecutor’s Office. The assassin (28) must serve 14 years in prison. He was charged with attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm. Three people were seriously injured after the knife attack on four men in the train.
For this, the federal prosecution demanded life imprisonment because they assumed a radical Islamist background. The lawyer argued that he was mentally ill and therefore not sane.
According to the federal prosecutors, the accused only simulated the illness and was “in a state of full culpability” at the time of the crime. The court agreed and sentenced the knife attacker to 14 years in prison.
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