Correspondent in Berlin
In 2013, Eyad al-Gharib tried to flee his past as a Syrian torturer, attached to the al-Katib prison center, near Damascus.
But it was ultimately German justice, eight years later, which condemned him for complicity in crimes against humanity.
It is the first time that a national court has replaced the International Criminal Court to punish these acts.
Guard Eyad al-Gharib was therefore sentenced Wednesday to four and a half years in prison by the regional court in Koblenz, in the southwest of the country.
The verdict, which at the same time sanctions the regime of Bashar al-Assad, takes place a few days before the commemoration of the ten years of the Syrian uprising, on March 15, 2011. The prosecution had required five and a half years.
The 43-year-old greeted the verdict, as usual, with a masked face, an attitude he has not shied away from since the start of the trial ten months ago.
He nevertheless wrote a letter of contrition intended
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