“I am ashamed. I know I did wrong. ”A 31-year-old Afghani was remorseful before the jury in Wels. He glorified the Taliban in numerous posts in front of 400,000 followers in social media channels.
In two videos, the thin man is said to have called for the murder of a US doctor after she burned the Koran. Attempted murder, says the prosecutor. The only point on which the defendant did not confess.
Osama bin Laden as a mobile phone picture
In personal video messages he carried out propaganda for the Taliban from 2017 to 2020, raised the mood against unbelievers and approved suicide and explosive attacks, which he did not deny. He also had a photo of Osama bin Laden as a background image on his cell phone. He then pleaded guilty to the charges of dangerous threats, hatred and incitement to terrorist offenses, crimes of the terrorist group and criminal organization. “I apologize a thousand times, it wasn’t good”. But: “I never wanted to kill anyone,” he emphasized.
“Deleted quickly”
But he does not claim to have committed the most serious crime, the attempted determination to murder, which is imprisonment for ten to 20 years or life. This was directed against the life of a doctor in the USA. After she burned the Koran, according to a video, the suspect called on the Internet to kill the doctor. He also threatened her. Said call to kill was meant in such a way that “she would be punished by God”. The woman “made a mistake” by burning the Koran, he was “angry and aggressive”. So he uploaded the video, but quickly deleted it, said the 31-year-old.
Call cited
In the video, however, the defendant did speak of the fact that the doctor should be “cut up on the street” and he hoped that someone would “kill the whore”. He wanted to “donate money to Pakistan when she is killed,” the judge quoted from the man’s appeal. He also did not take the video from social media, but rather only made it public two days after the doctor had apologized for her action on the Internet, an IT expert accused him. But the defendant stuck to it: He didn’t mean all of it that way and “deleted forever” his Facebook account with the said video.
“Brainwashing”
Defense attorney Paul Fuchs: “He was radicalized and brainwashed by mullahs.” The verdict is still pending.