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Syrian man gets life imprisonment for stabbings in German city of Solingen

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Syrian man gets life imprisonment for stabbings in German city of Solingen

Issa al-Hasan, 27, who contacted Islamic State handler before attack, acted out of ‘treacherous and base motives’

A Syrian man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for a 2024 stabbing attack in western Germany in which three people were killed and 10 others injured.

Issa al-Hasan, 27, who arrived in Germany as a refugee after travelling through Turkey and the Balkans in 2022 and had been a member of the Islamic State militant group, had acted out of “treacherous and base motives”, the court in Düsseldorf said.

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