In the trial of a doctor who is said to have tortured in Syrian military hospitals, the Higher Regional Court on Tuesday played the recording of an interrogation by the investigating judge of the Federal Court of Justice.
It was created in December 2020, six months after Alaa M. was arrested in a rehabilitation clinic in Bad Wildungen.
The process started in January.
M. first commented on the person and then on the allegations.
This is not over after six days of negotiations.
He answers questions from the judges and federal prosecutors, but not the co-plaintiffs.
He also wants to provide information about his "theory" behind the allegations.
However, he wants to wait until his third defender is back.
However, the video of the interrogation gives clues to the “theory”: M. says in it that he received a message in September 2018 in which an acquaintance accused him of having set someone on fire.
He wanted to file a complaint, which the police refused.
The background to the message was that he had refused to help in field hospitals because there were "Islamist, fanatical people" there who had "slaughtered" Christians near Homs.
M. says that in April 2019 there was a first report of his alleged actions in a Turkish newspaper, after which an unknown man and journalists turned up at his place.
The trial will continue on Thursday.