He was complicit in the "crimes against humanity" committed in Syria.
This is the historic sentence pronounced by a German court during a completely atypical trial: the first on a global scale against an element of the Assad regime.
This is Eyad Al Gharib,
007 Syrian
, sentenced today by the High Court of Koblenz to
4 and a half years in prison
for having
collaborated in forms of torture and very serious deprivation of liberty
.
The prosecutor had asked for five years for him.
In the same hours, the judgment also arrived for the man considered the highest leader of Isis in Germany: Abu Walaa, convicted by the Court of Appeal of Celle, who will instead have to serve 10 and a half years in prison.
The sentence on the Syrian agent who fled to Germany marks a turning point.
Al Gharib, 44, is accused of collaborating in the arrest of 30 people during a demonstration between September and October 2011. In the midst of the popular uprising that led to the civil war that still sweeps the country, the dissidents were brought into a center of the secret services in Damascus, named Al-Kathib, and tortured here.
And it is the first time that a court has ruled on a crime linked to the
brutal repression of the Assad regime
.
The Celle Court of Appeal instead pronounced a
37-year
sentence against Abu Walaa, an
Iraqi, believed to be the leader of ISIS terrorists in Germany.
The former imam of a mosque that was later closed will have to serve 10 and a half years in prison.
He is accused of having recruited young men for the Islamic State: boys hooked and radicalized between Lower Saxony and the Ruhr area and then sent to the field to fight.
