Life imprisonment for terrorist crimes
Published 31 July 2025
An individual has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Stockholm District Court for terrorist crimes and gross war crimes. The individual has been convicted for murdering a Jordanian fighter pilot together and in collusion with other perpetrators belonging to the Islamic State.
The Court writes in their judgement that the suspect, armed and masked, together with others, locked the pilot into a metal cage. The cage was then set on fire by one of the co-perpetrators and the pilot was burned to death. The court also assesses that the act could have seriously damaged the state of Jordan and other states that were mentioned in the execution video.
The individual is imprisoned in France for his involvement in the terrorist attack in Paris in 2015 and is serving a 30-year sentence. The individual is also serving a life imprisonment sentence in Belgium for his part in the terrorist attack in Brussels in 2016.
The Swedish Security Service has led the criminal investigation on terrorist crimes and assisted the Swedish Police Authority with their investigation on gross war crimes. The prosecutor at the National Security Unit, and the National Public Prosecution Department Unit against Organised Crime have led the respective criminal investigations.
Published
31 July 2025
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