He hardly slept, and would like to leave the courtroom at the loved one fast. Majd A. is not the presence of the accused, who sit to the left and to the right of him, behind bulletproof glass, the creeps. “I’m scared,” says the 35-year-old refugee from Iraq. An interpreter translated. He is worried about the safety of his parents and brothers and sisters in Mosul.
The witness asked the court to send the accused out of the room. What he was scared of, asks the judge. “The organization,” says the witness. “In front of the IS?” Majd A. nods. For exclusion of the accused from the courtroom that’s not enough as a justification. The defendant, Raad A., and Abbas, R., may remain.
father and son must be 1 since November. Criminal division of the superior court in Berlin responsible because of membership in the Islamist terrorist organization IS. The 43-Year-old and 19-Year-old should be connected according to the indictment, 2014 in Mosul, the IS and the in October 2014 on a execution.
In July 2015, you came to Germany. In Berlin, the father for the terrorist militia engaged. So he should have been looking for someone who perpetrated a suicide bombing in the Berlin U-Bahn. The allegations against the father based on the testimony of witnesses. Majd A. is one of them.
Two dead bodies. out of the house
Majd A. lived in Mosul in the neighborhood of the accused, perhaps 400 meters away, as he says in court worn You’ve known each other and greeted, closer contact did not exist. Three times the witness has been heard already from the police. Now he says in court. The statements vary. It’s a mess of game.
on the night of 9. June 2014, the Sunni terrorist group ISIS marched into Mosul and conquered large parts of is the second largest city of Iraq. Already a few days ago, we told in the neighborhood, says the witness, Raad belong to A. for the IS.
early On the Morning of 9. June, at 5 o’clock, went to Majd A. according to him, out of the house. His father is a goldsmith, and he wanted to get the Gold from its home, in order to secure it from looting. On the road, a man had stood and desperately against the head. The man said that the IS had killed his wife and daughter. “The Raad has pointed out to my wife,” said the man.
Majd A. told, he continued his way and was returned an hour later. There IS members had carried two corpses out of the house to the other man. The approximately 45-year-old woman and her 17-year-old daughter had been Shiites, the surviving father of a family, a Sunni.
In July 2017 Majd should have A. the police said that he had himself seen and heard, as Raad A. brought the neighbors together and said: “I killed the wife and daughter, because they are Shiites.” The father he had left alive, because he was a Sunni.
The judge reads out the witnesses from the Protocol. “No, no, I have Trbet not seen, not heard,” says Majd A. was told about it only in the neighborhood. The judge reads from the log. Again, Majd A. I, Raad I, A. the murders confessed. “Said Raad never,” says the witness. Possibly a translation error.
“that’s Why the enemies”
The judges were faced him now with a further statement to the police, two months later. This time is in the record, the witness has not heard of Raad A. personally, that carried out the murder of a mother and daughter, but in order. Majd A.: “I didn’t really say that.” In another place of the same Protocol States, Raad A., but a neighbor told him that the order from which defendants had come. He didn’t say that. “I would like to say anything, which I blame on the accused to injustice,” says the witness.
The survey will take several hours. As Majd a, A. a little. As the IS brought the bodies of the women from the apartment, Raad stood A. in front of the house. He had seen how Raad is A. increased in the car of a high IS official.
Later, Majd reports A. all of a sudden, that the defendant molested the woman and the daughter. They had rejected him, he would have you insulted as a result. This was still before the takeover of power by the IS. The mother is said to have displayed Raad A. at the time of the police. “That’s what he told people who told other people, I’ve heard it,” says Majd A. The police should have taken Raad A. then. “That’s why the enemies were.” A little later he corrected himself, had told him not just any people, but a friend, the mother of I reported.
The judge asks if the son, Abbas, had also been present when the dead women were brought out of the house. He does not recall says the witness. In the case of the police, he had spoken of it, Abbas R had to be careful with a gun in Hand, that the IS members were working properly. “Sounds as if Abbas had the IS people guarded,” says the judge. “If it is there, it will be so,” says Majd A. And then: “Quite frankly, The reminder is gone.”
The judge asked, according to hooks, questions, reads out from the interrogation protocols. “My head is rushing,” says the witness finally. The judge under the survey breaks. Majd A. needs to come back. The court still has some issues, the defense of Raad A., and Abbas, R. also.
