After the terrorist assault on individuals celebrating Bielefeld The decision is anticipated this Monday. The Federal Prosecutor’s Workplace has requested the utmost sentence for the confessed attacker and suspected IS terrorist Mahmoud M. on the Düsseldorf Larger Regional Courtroom: life imprisonment for 4 counts of tried homicide. As well as, the severity of the guilt should be decided and subsequent preventive detention ordered.
The 36-year-old defendant lacks any empathy for the victims. He solely feels pity for himself. Due to his radical Islamic views, the Syrian remains to be harmful and his prognosis is extraordinarily unfavorable. The protection attorneys pointed to the defendant’s tough childhood and the melancholy {that a} psychiatric skilled had identified. They requested twelve years in jail.
The 4 victims reported within the trial that they have been nonetheless affected by the assault. Simply over a yr in the past, they have been attacked whereas partying in entrance of a bar in Bielefeld at evening and have been critically injured by knife wounds. The attacker is alleged to have shouted “Allahu akbar”. Among the many celebrants have been quite a few followers of the Arminia Bielefeld soccer membership.
The defendant confessed the crime to psychologists and psychiatrists whereas in custody and admitted it in his closing assertion in the course of the trial. Whereas in custody, he additionally mentioned that he had already killed two individuals in Syria, together with his half-brother on behalf of IS.
Prosecutor: IS previous in Syria
In line with the general public prosecutor, the 36-year-old had been lively within the ranks of IS in Syria for years and had sworn an oath of loyalty to the caliph earlier than he was arrested by Kurdish items as an IS man and imprisoned for eight months. He got here to Germany in 2023.
Six months earlier than the crime, he grew to become radicalized in Germany and consumed Islamist movies on Tiktok. Earlier than the assault, he despatched a confessional video to an IS contact, nevertheless it was not revealed. He additionally carried a chunk of paper with the IS flag he had drawn himself.
“He needed to kill as many individuals as attainable,” mentioned the prosecutor. It was solely when he misplaced his self-made sword stick and was confronted with decided resistance that he fled. A day later, on the night of Might nineteenth, he was arrested in Heiligenhaus close to Düsseldorf as a result of a cousin betrayed him to the police.
Clear phrases from the psychiatrist
In line with a psychiatric skilled, the defendant is deeply Islamist radicalized. The Islamist-jihadist ideology is an integral a part of his persona and his worth system. To do that, he even accepted the lack of contact along with his youngsters. He’s susceptible, illiberal and susceptible to violence; de-radicalization didn’t happen.
In Germany, his psychological scenario worsened after household reunification was stopped, he could not discover a job and did not study German.
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