He is accused of "crime against humanity" and torture in a prison in the Damascus regime. A Syrian doctor was arrested on June 19 in Germany where he has lived since 2015, the federal prosecutor's office announced on Monday.
Alaa M. was arrested on 19 June in Hesse on the basis of an arrest warrant issued by an investigating judge of the federal court. He is accused of a “crime against humanity” on a protester, tortured to death in 2011 in a jail of the secret services of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Homs, specifies in a statement the prosecution of Karlsruhe, in charge of affairs the most sensitive. He was placed in pre-trial detention.
Hit with a plastic pipe
Alaa M. worked as a doctor in a military secret service prison where he allegedly tortured, from 23 October 2011, a man detained for having participated in a demonstration against the Damascus regime.
"At the end of a" torture session ", he (the detainee) had an epilepsy attack, following which a fellow inmate asked a guard to warn a doctor", reports the federal prosecutor's office . "After his arrival, the accused, who was present as a doctor, suddenly struck A. with a plastic hose," he continues. “Even after his fall, Alaa M. continued to beat and kicked the victim. The next day, A.'s state of health deteriorated considerably, "according to the federal prosecutor's office.
He practiced his profession in Germany
"After the fellow prisoners asked for medical treatment, the accused presented himself again, this time accompanied by another prison doctor. The two of them, each armed with a plastic hose, then hit A., weakened, who could no longer walk on his own, until he lost consciousness, ”describes the package.
“The victim was then rolled into a blanket by several guards and taken away. The victim died later, "according to the prosecution. Alaa M. had left Syria in mid-2015 and had reached Germany, like hundreds of thousands of Syrians. He worked there as a doctor.
Two former members of the Syrian intelligence services, including an ex-high ranking officer, are currently on trial before the court in Koblenz (Germany). They are on trial for crimes against humanity and complicity in crimes against humanity for several dozen deaths in a detention center and acts of torture on several thousand detainees.
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