A Syrian man, Basil A., is being tried in Germany on charges of belonging to a foreign terrorist group and supporting another one.
Basil, 24, appeared before a Hamburg court on accusations of fighting with Ahrar al-Sham for eight months, starting August 2013, before joining ISIS in Syria.
The terrorist fled from ISIS and reached Turkey then Germany in December along with the wave of refugees. He was arrested in May 2018 after the regression of the terrorist group in Syria and Iraq.
Kai Vantzen, the spokesman for the Hamburg court, said that Ahrar al-Sham follows the policy of physical and psychological indoctrination of Muslims with different intellect. He added that the group kills civilians for the sake of achieving its purposes.
The convict participated in forming the guarding teams of Ahrar al-Sham and was armed with grenades and Kalashnikov. He also took part in monitoring sites and movements of Syrian regime forces near a military airport.
Basil also spied in favor of the terrorist group on residents of al-Tabqah and reported for the leadership the gaps in operations of security forces belonging to ISIS. He also went into street wars fighting alongside Ahrar al-Sham militias.
This isn’t the first time when the German courts get involved with individuals charged for fighting with Ahrar al-Sham. Hamburg court issued earlier a two year and nine months sentence in the case of another Syrian on charges of belonging to a terrorist group.
