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Düsseldorf: Almost five years in prison for Duisburg Islamists

2022-01-07T17:20:26.760Z


He paid the "Islamic State" money and made proposals for attacks: According to a court ruling, a 27-year-old must be imprisoned for several years. Apparently he was exposed by the FBI.


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A 27-year-old Islamist from Duisburg has been sentenced to four years and nine months in prison.

The Düsseldorf district court found the man guilty of financing terrorism and attempting to participate in serious crimes.

"You named 15 specific attack targets in Israel and calculated the costs precisely," said the presiding judge.

"You have planned the deaths of numerous people and in doing so fulfilled characteristics of murder such as malice."

The man had confessed to having sworn the oath of allegiance to the terrorist group "Islamic State" (IS) in May 2021 and supported them financially with 250 euros.

The contact was apparently an FBI investigator

He also confessed that between April and May 2021 he used the Telegram messenger service to present a supposed IS contact person with numerous ideas for terrorist attacks in crowded places in Israel, including explosives and gun attacks at bus stations, shopping malls and at Ben Gurion Airport.

The alleged contact is likely to have been an undercover agent for the US Federal Police FBI.

"I regret that and would like to apologize to all affected countries such as the USA, Turkey, Israel and Germany," said the 27-year-old, who last worked as a delivery driver.

He himself hardly believed in the realization of his terrorist plans.

The USA had already refused him entry in 2016.

At that time he got a plane ticket to drive a car into a crowd in New York at the new World Trade Center.

The German said of his motive that he felt marginalized in Germany because of his origins.

His parents are from Kazakhstan.

The man was arrested on May 27 of last year following a tip from US authorities.

The verdict is not yet legally binding.

ptz / dpa

Source: spiegel

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