From: Gal Cohen
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2017 1:36 PM
To: Gal Cohen; Gilad noam; Hila Zur; Maayan Chen; Roy Ariav; Tomer Haramaty; Yael Naggan
Subject: מבקש מקלט באוסטריה נידון למאסר עולם בגין פשעי מלחמה בסוריה
A court in Austria has on Wednesday, May 10, punished with life imprisonment a Middle Eastern
asylum seeker after finding him guilty of shooting dead 20 people in Syria.
British public broadcaster BBC reports that the 27-year-old man, who is reported to be a stateless Palestinian, who grew up in a refugee camp in Homs, Syria, was accused of shooting
unarmed or wounded soldiers following a battle in Homs in 2016.
According to reports in Austrian press, the unnamed man had told others at a refugee shelter that he had shot dead Syrian government forces’ soldiers, when he was fighting with an Islamist
rebel group called the Farouq Brigade.
His lawyers, however, noted that his account of events was mistranslated and that he was expected to appeal against the ruling.
See:
http://bnn-news.com/asylum-seeker-in-austria-found-guilty-of-war-crimes-in-syria-165139
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