Germany: Palestinian
jihadist sentenced to life in prison for deadly knife attack, by
Ann Corcoran on March 2, 2018
Invasion of Europe news…. He was a failed asylum seeker who said
he understood the Koran and therefore needed to go out and kill Christians.
From AFP via Malay Mail Online: HAMBURG, March 1 — A Palestinian jihadist who killed one man and
wounded six other people in a German supermarket knife rampage last year was
sentenced today to life in prison.
Ahmad Alhaw, 27, had admitted to the
murder and assaults in the river port city of Hamburg.
In delivering the sentence, the judge
noted the “particular severity” of the crime, lowering Alhaw’s chances of
obtaining early release on parole.
Prosecutors had said the attack stemmed
from a “radical Islamist” motive, charging that the man had hoped “he would die
as a martyr”.
His aim was to kill as many German Christians
as possible to
avenge the suffering of Muslims worldwide, they said.
The defendant entered a supermarket on July 28
last year, snatched a 20-centimetre (eight-inch) knife from the shelves,
unwrapped it and fatally stabbed a 50-year-old man.
As panic broke out, he slashed and stabbed at others inside
and then outside the shop, shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest), and also
wounding a 50-year-old woman and four men.
The Islamist attack was Germany’s first
since December 2016 when Tunisian Anis Amri ploughed a stolen truck through a
Berlin Christmas market in an attack that claimed 12 lives.
The knife rampage led to charges that
security services had been too complacent in keeping an eye on Alhaw despite
multiple warnings that he was radicalizing.
It also fueled growing xenophobia against
Muslim migrants after the mass influx of more than one million asylum seekers
since mid-2015.
Witnesses told the court they had seen
the failed asylum seeker self-radicalize in the lead-up to the attack. Alhaw,
who had watched IS propaganda videos online, grew deeply religious and
increasingly distrustful of state authorities.
By 2016 he thought that he suddenly understood
the Koran completely, rejected all previous temptations, and started looking at
all other people as either true believers or non-believers, the psychiatrist said. More here. For my complete ‘Invasion of Europe’ archive go here.
My Germany files are here.
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2018/03/02/germany-palestinian-jihadist-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-deadly-knife-attack/
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