the COPENHAGEN city COURT (Ekstra Bladet): Makeup artist, syrienskriger and in love with pop star. The 31-year-old acids, as Tuesday is for the court of the Copenhagen city Court, charged with planning of terrorism, have lived a varied life before he was an asylum seeker in Sweden and later remanded in custody in Denmark.
How it emerged of the 31-year-olds explanation opposite specialanklager Sonja Hedegaard. The man is accused of planning to kill random people with knives and bombesprægninger. He refuses guilty.
I was born in Saudi Arabia, but moved to Syria when I was two years old. Here I studied at University, and later I was employed in a French makeupfirma. I worked for several years as a makeup artist, said the 31-year-old in court.
But the make-up artist was not the only thing which the accused dealt with.
Specialanklager Sonja Hedegaard was particularly interested in the 31-year-olds work in the so-called free syrian army, as defendants in a number of years was connected.
Here he worked both as a soldier, but also as an electronic hacker – an employment, which he had acquired skills by cultivating it on hobbybasis.
– I have participated in two battles. I’m a man, I am a muslim in the islamic faith. If a muslim is fighting against me, so I have the right to fight back. It was the first that took place there. In the beginning, was the islamic state which fought against us and we fought back. It was an internal civil war, he said in his statement to the court.
in Addition to the accused’s time as a soldier in Syria, was the prosecutor also interested in his relationship to the muslim branch, the shiites. This is probably due to the 31-year-old has been charged with the arson of a shia mosque in Sweden. During this trial, it emerged that the 31-year-old had strong sympathies for the Islamic State. Information from the Swedish trial, will also be used as evidence in the case in a Copenhagen city Court.
Specialanklager Sonja Hedegaard asked directly whether he was sunni muslim, and to that he answered clearly, yes. To the question whether he had anything against shia, he was more hesitant.
– I have been in love with a iraker and it was in five years. She was shia muslim, he explained in court without answering the real question, and continued:
– But at some point took over the shia-muslims a town near Homs in Syria. I don’t know if you’ve seen the videos, but they began to decapitate small children.
Here may the prosecutor again break in and repeat the question:
– do you Have something against shia muslims?
-Yes, I may not like them, he answered more easily excited and gestured with his arms.
Despite the strong feelings for shia muslims, was the accused ready in the saliva, when the prosecutor asked the islamic law sharia and democracy.
– You consider yourself a muslim – are you in favour of sharia law? asked Sonja Hedegaard.
– I am a regular muslim, I would never be able to comply with sharia law, said the defendants.
Subsequently, she asked the accused what he thought about democracy.
Democracy is the essence of all life, was the answer.
the Trial continues up to 5. march, where awaiting judgment.
