Swedish jihadist jailed for all times over IS homicide of Jordanian pilot in Syria

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A Swedish man already convicted of finishing up jihadist assaults in Europe has been jailed for all times for "critical conflict crimes and terrorist crimes" over the brutal killing of a pilot in Syria 10 years in the past.

A court docket in Stockholm handed down the decision to Osama Krayem, who had been jailed for the Paris and Brussels assaults in 2015 and 2016.

Jordanian air drive pilot Lt Moaz al-Kasasbeh was captured when his aircraft got here down in Syria throughout a mission towards the Islamic State (IS) group in 2014.

Jordan confirmed he had died after a grotesque IS video appeared to indicate the 26-year-old being burned alive in a cage.

Krayem had denied the costs, Swedish public broadcaster SVT reported, and stated he was unaware of the plans for the killing.

Whereas the proof confirmed that the hearth that killed Lt Kasasbeh was lit by one other man, Krayem was additionally concerned within the killing, the court docket stated.

"The defendant, by means of his actions, contributed so actively to the demise of the pilot that he must be thought-about a perpetrator," presiding Choose Anna Liljenberg Gullesjo stated in a press release.

He was on the execution website "uniformed and armed, and allowed himself to be filmed," the assertion added.

Krayem, 32, who's already serving a 30-year sentence for his position within the Paris assaults and a life time period for the Brussels assaults, was given a second life sentence by the court docket in Stockholm.

The choose added that Krayem's actions consisted of "guarding the sufferer each earlier than and throughout the execution and taking him to the cage the place he was set alight".

The court docket additionally awarded compensation to Lt Kasasbeh's mother and father and siblings of round 80,000 Swedish kronor ($8,200/£6,198) every.

Lt Kasasbeh was captured when his aircraft got here down close to town of Raqqa throughout a mission towards IS in December 2014.

On the time of his demise in early 2015, Jordan - which was a part of a US-led coalition preventing IS in Syria - had been making an attempt to safe his launch as a part of a prisoner swap.

"It's painful for my mother and father to be confronted with this occasion once more, however we're grateful that the Swedish authorities need to give us justice," the pilot's brother, Jawdat al-Kasasbeh, informed Swedish broadcaster Sveriges Radio when costs have been initially introduced.

Krayem is initially from the Swedish metropolis of Malmo and is believed to have travelled to Syria in September 2014 to battle for IS.

In June 2022, he was sentenced for his position within the November 2015 Paris assaults - through which 130 individuals have been killed - and for planning a separate assault on Amsterdam airport.

A 12 months later, he was additionally discovered responsible of terrorist homicide for his position within the Brussels assaults that killed 32 individuals.