Torture servant in Syria – lifelong prison for orthopedic surgeons in Germany

The court in Frankfurt am Main saw it as proven that Alaa M. had killed two people and had been seriously injured nine people. The actions were celebrated in 2011 and 2012 in Syria. For the 40-year-old suspect today, accommodation was imposed in preventive detention. A premature release after 15 years would be almost impossible.

Member of a “removal group” in Syria
The presiding judge Christoph Koller described the actions of the accused in the military hospital in the city of Homs in the reasoning. There he belonged to a group of doctors who were known as the “removal group”. Victims were held civilians who were assigned to the opposition against the then ruler Bashar al-Assad. The doctor had attended sadistic tendencies and this during torture. “Above all, the accused physical pain enjoyed causing him with inferior and inferior people,” said Koller.

The man has lived in Germany for ten years and has worked in various clinics as an orthopedic surgeon. The family man was arrested in the summer of 2020-victims had recognized him in a TV documentary about the Syrian city of Homs. Since then he has been in custody. The trial against him started in January 2022.

Doctor saw himself as a victim of a conspiracy
The German federal public prosecutor called for life imprisonment for the man in her plea, with subsequent preventive detention. His lawyers fought for an acquittal of the accusation of the murders. Your client did not work in Homs in the relevant period. In the process, the man himself did not think he was the victim of a conspiracy. The judgment has not yet been final.