Swedish jihadist jailed for life over Jordan pilot burned alive in Syria
Osama Krayem is already serving long prison sentences for his role in the Paris and Brussels attacks in 2015 and 2016
A Stockholm court on Thursday handed down a life term to Swedish jihadist Osama Krayem over the murder of a Jordanian pilot burned alive by Islamic State (IS) group in Syria, which sparked international outrage in 2015.
The Swedish court was the first to try a person over the infamous killing.
Judge Anna Liljenberg Gullesjo said in a statement that “the investigation has shown that the defendant was at the execution site, uniformed and armed, and allowed himself to be filmed”.
While noting that video evidence showed that another man actually lit the fire “thus directly caused the death of the Jordanian pilot”, the judge said “defendant’s actions contributed so significantly to the death of the victim that he should be considered a perpetrator”.
Krayem, who is already serving long prison sentences for his role in the Paris and Brussels attacks in 2015 and 2016, was given a life sentence for “serious war crimes and terrorist crimes”.
On December 24, 2014, an aircraft belonging to the Royal Jordanian Air Force crashed in Syria.