Syrian defendant Issa Al H (R) arrives at court for his sentencing in Duesseldorf, western Germany, at the end of his trial over a deadly knife attack that killed three people in August 2024 in Solingen, western Germany, during a summer city festival. (Photo by INA FASSBENDER / AFP)
German court jails Syrian man for life for deadly knife attack
DUSSELDORF: A Syrian man was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for killing three people in an Islamist-motivated knife attack at a summer festival in the German city of Solingen last year. The court in Duesseldorf said Issa Al Hasan, who was 27 at the start of his trial in May, was a member of the Daesh group and had acted out of “treacherous and base motives.”
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