China News Service, September 8, According to Agence France-Presse, on September 7, a Turkish court sentenced a Uzbekist gunman Masharipov to life imprisonment.
On New Year's Eve 2017, it launched an attack in a nightclub in Istanbul, killing 39 people.
Data map: On January 16, 2017, Turkish police arrested the main perpetrator of the nightclub attack.
In the early morning of January 1, 2017 local time, a nightclub in Istanbul was attacked by armed forces.
The terrorists killed the security guard with a submachine gun, then broke into the nightclub and shot at the carnival crowd.
According to Turkish official sources, 39 people were killed in the attack and at least 69 were injured.
Later, the terrorist organization "Islamic State" declared responsibility for the terrorist attacks.
According to reports, on September 7, 2020, the Istanbul Criminal Court sentenced the principal offender Masharipov to 40 years’ imprisonment for “intentional murder” and “violation of the Constitution”.
In addition, Masaribov was sentenced to 1368 imprisonment for attempted murder and violating the gun law.
On the same day, the court also sentenced one of his associates to 1432 years in prison for assisting in planning the attack.
Masaribov was born in Uzbekistan in 1983. He speaks four languages and was trained in Afghanistan. He is a "trained" terrorist.
It is speculated that he entered Turkey in January 2016, then arrived in Istanbul and rented a house, and started to change address before the terrorist attack.
Prior to this, he had confessed to the crime, and the fingerprints found at the crime scene matched his.