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| Six Shaboobs go on trial in Germany |
| 2015-06-14 |
| Six men accused of membership in Somalia’s Islamist militant al-Shabaab group go on trial in Germany. The Federal gave details of the charges, he says, “The federal public prosecution has brought a charge against six people. We accuse five of them of having travelled from Germany to Somalia and join the criminal and terrorist organization ‘al-Shabaab’, where they received training with heavy weapons and were sent on fighting operations. We accuse one further person of having joined the group. Al-Shabaab has suspected this person of being a spy and therefore he was not accepted into their group.” The defence lawyer for one of the accused says it is too early in the trial to reply to the prosecution. According to media reports the accused men travelled from Frankfurt via Kenya to Somalia. On their way back in September 2014 two of them were arrested in Kenya and then deported to Germany. Three others were arrested in Frankfurt. The trial is expected to continue until the end of August. |
| Posted by:Steve White |