The U.S. attorney’s office has let two former employees of the Syrian secret service in Germany. The two men are accused of torture in Syria of crimes against humanity.
Two former employees of the Syrian intelligence service yesterday in Rhineland-Palatinate and Berlin by officials of the Federal criminal police office arrested. The Federal Prosecutor accuses the two 42, and 56-year-old Syrians crimes against humanity. According to SWR information, the 42-Year-old was taken to two bridges, the other in Berlin.
As a high-ranking employee of the Syrian secret service of the Accused, Anwar R. between the end of April 2011 and at the beginning of September 2012 to be involved in torture and physical abuse. The Accused Eyad A. should have done from the beginning of July 2011 and mid-January 2012, to the killing of two people, as well as the torture and physical abuse of at least 2000 people for help.
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The acts of the accused the two men, supposed to have taken place at the beginning of the Syrian Revolution between 2011 and 2012. The Syrian Regime tried, all of the government-critical activities of the Opposition across the Board with brutal violence to suppress. The Syrian intelligence services have an important role to came.
According to the findings of the bundesa walk presidency of Anwar R., and Eyad A. belonged to the Syrian General intelligence, specifically, for the security in the room Damascus competent Department. Thus, Anwar R. headed the so-called investigation Department with an attached prison. As the head of the investigation Department, Anwar R. the processes in the prison, and Marshal determines that the use of systematic and brutal torture.
Eyad A. was employed, according to the office of the attorney General in a unit, the zuarbeitete of the Department of the Anwar R. The task of Eyad A. it was, therefore, in the context of controls on persons, your, desert, to determine the demonstrators and other suspicious persons, and arrest.
Both men sat in 2012, according to Germany
Eyad A. worked in the summer of 2011, allegedly for a month at a check post in the outskirts of Damascus. On a daily basis and were monitored between 200 and 300 people. About 100 of them were taken per day, in the of Anwar R.-led prison and there tortured. 2012 Anwar left R. and Eyad A. Syria and applied for asylum in Germany.
another employee of the Syrian secret service was yesterday arrested in France. Yesterday’s arrests were coordinated in the framework of a joint investigation group to each other. The accused were brought before the investigating judge of the Federal court of justice. This ordered pre-trial detention. Criminal proceedings in Germany against employees of the Syrian state, are yet extremely rare.
With information from Holger Schmidt, ARD-terrorism expert
