Man from Germany detained for his involvement with the Islamic State terrorist group

A Stuttgart court on Wednesday sentenced a German man to prison for his involvement with the ISIS extremist group, but cleared him of plotting to attack a skating rink.

Dasbar W. was arrested in December 2017 for allegedly planning to drive into crowds at an ice rink in Karlsruhe.

The court found insufficient proof to convict him for the alleged plot, but handed Dasbar W. five and a half years in jail for his links with the ISIS group.

Born in Germany, Dasbar W. moved with his parents to their home country of Iraq in 2006.

He returned to Germany in 2014 and a year later made contact in online chat groups with other ISIS sympathizers.

He travelled back to Iraq in June 2015 and began acting as a middleman between a high-ranking ISIS member and a prominent imam in Erbil.

Prosecutors said he returned to Germany after receiving an order from the ISIS contact to carry out an attack – but he failed to execute the task as two French students sharing an apartment with him warned the police.

The defendant then went back again to Erbil and spied on the prime minister’s office as a potential target of attack.

He was caught and jailed for two months in Iraq. Several months after his release, he returned once more to Germany in July 2017.

Dasbar W.’s arrest in December 2017 came a year after a Christmas market attack in Berlin that killed 12 people.

Source: Al Arabiya