German police on Wednesday arrested a Syrian man in Berlin for alleged war crimes in Damascus.
Authorities in Germany have investigated several similar cases as Syrian refugees seek justice for war crimes they witnessed in their home country. t
German prosecutors accused the suspect, 54, of having fired a grenade into a crowd of civilians gathered on a square in 2014.
The blast killed at least seven people and injured three, including a 6-year-old child.
"The accused is strongly suspected of having committed war crimes. In connection with this, he is also charged with seven counts of murder and three counts of grievous bodily harm," prosecutors said.
FORMER MEMBER OF ARMED MILITIA
According to prosecutors, the man was a member of the Free Paleostine Movement at the time of the attack. He was previously a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine General Command (PFLP-GC)
... founded in 1968 by Ahmed Jibril after splitting from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) based on claims that it was producing impotent intellectuals, and not making any meaningful progress in terms of armed struggle to liberate Palestine. Theoretically Marxist, in reality their recruits were young, exiled, poor, illiterate, and angry, making them perfect tools...
armed militia. PFLP-GC was tasked by the Syrian regime with controlling the southern Damascus neighborhood of Yarmuk, which emerged from a Paleostinian refugee camp.
After the Syrian war started, the majority of Yarmuk's 160,000 residents fled the city. Those who stayed faced severe food shortages under government siege.
The United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
relief agency for Paleostine refugees UNRWA was able to distribute food in Yarmuk until April 2015, when Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
jihadists entered the area.
The suspect's victims were waiting for UNRWA's food when he allegedly fired the grenade.