PET traveled to northern Syria to interrogate the ICE warrior under investigation by the Danish terrorsag.
“Operation Venti” is the name for one of the largest investigations into terror for several years, and Friday, the Copenhagen city Court handed down judgment in the case.
the Islamic State was equipped with drones and other equipment of three men from Copenhagen and Brøndby Strand.
the Minister of justice decided in the summer to follow the prosecutor’s option to prosecute on the violation of the most serious section on terrorism. It has a maximum sentence of imprisonment until the lifetime. But judges and nævninger dismissed the men for the claim.
the Problem is, legally speaking, to deliveries of model aircraft, filters, gas masks, cameras, and other things not directly can be used to commit killings and violence. It also mentions the indictment is not specific acts of terrorism, and therefore a major indictment does not, the district court affirmed.
instead, all three convicted for having promoted the Islamic State’s business, and it is strafmæssigt in a totally different ballgame. The maximum is six years. The result on Friday has been in prison in respectively four, three and a half and two and a half years.
Two of the men – who have been called, respectively, “the Teacher” and “Cykelhandleren” – has also been acquitted of complicity to a concrete terrorist attack.
Admittedly, it was the men behind the delivery of two Go Pro cameras, as Cykelhandleren traveled to Istanbul with. But it is not proven that the one camera was set on a drone, as rekognoscerede in advance of a bloody attack on Ain Issa-the base near Raqqa in august 2014.
When the indictment was raised in the summer, said a prosecutor, that the components could be “impactful terrorvåben”.
– Although it may sound like shopping lists for a hobby, it is deadly earnest, said advokaturchef Kristian Kirk in a press release.
the Hearings have revealed an extremely comprehensive exploration. A usb connector turned out to contain crucial evidence about the purchases. Papers, as an american professor had found in Mosul in Iraq, was also presented to the court.
in Addition, raised two PET professionals to northern Syria to interrogate an ICE warrior, which sits in a prison under the control, under kurdish forces.
In several months followed the PET via listening devices with, as the third offender in his car to voice messages, such as via an encrypted service should be sent to a contact in Turkey.
Also when he sometimes his trips for Uber song with so-called nasheeds, a kind of anthems, listened PET. “For Allah’s sake, we will march to the gate of paradise, where our virgins are waiting”, said among other.
along the Way, in the case also has a former american official, an american scientist and specialists from the Army’s Efterretningscenter been questioned.
Besides, judges and nævninger studied the photos from a wedding party in 2012. Among the many guests were several bearded men, all of which can be linked to extremism. Among other things Said Mansour, the bookseller from Brønshøj.
The alleged ringleader in the affair is probably dead. The ingeniøruddannede Basil Hassan interacted with the teacher and cykelhandleren through hidden channels. In the Islamic State droneenhed Katibet Bara bin Malik took Hassan a significant role, assess the district court.
Drones, and other equipment was passed by Abdul Kadir Cesur, a former all games, living in Turkey, the court stated.
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