Published on
28/05/2025 – 11:03 GMT+2
Swedish prosecutors have charged a convicted terrorist over the 2015 killing of a Jordanian pilot who used to be burned alive in Syria via the so-called Islamic State (IS) staff.
Osama Krayem — a 32-year-old Swedish citizen — used to be charged on Tuesday with irritated warfare crimes and terrorism in relation to the killing of Jordanian air pressure pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh.
“Krayem, together with and in agreement with other perpetrators belonging to IS, killed/deprived Muath al-Kasasbeh of his life,” the Swedish Prosecution Authority stated in his indictment.
Krayem used to be in the past convicted of involvement in deadly assaults via the IS staff in Paris in 2015 and in Brussels in 2016, and is these days serving a 30-year prison sentence in France. He has been briefly transferred to Sweden to take part within the Swedish investigation and is predicted to head on trial in Stockholm on 4 June.
The suspect’s attorney may now not be in an instant reached for remark. Krayem has in the past denied the costs, in line with Swedish public broadcaster SVT.
The IS staff took al-Kasasbeh captive in December 2014 after his F-16 fighter jet crashed close to the gang’s then de facto capital of Raqqa in northern Syria. In early 2015, the gang launched a video of al-Kasasbeh being burned alive in a cage. His dying used to be showed via Jordan.
The Swedish prosecutors’ indictment stated that Krayem had pressured the pilot into the cage.
“The cage was subsequently set on fire by one of the co-perpetrators, and the pilot died as a consequence of the fire,” the prosecutors stated.
Krayem grew up within the Swedish town of Malmö and is assumed to have travelled to Syria in September 2014 to battle for the IS staff. He had posted pictures on social media from Syria, together with one the place he posed with an attack rifle in entrance of the gang’s black flag.
Terror convictions in France and Belgium
In 2022, Krayem used to be amongst 20 males convicted via a different terrorism courtroom in Paris over a wave of IS assaults within the French capital in 2015, concentrated on a number of places, together with the Bataclan theatre. The attacks killed 130 folks and injured masses.
Krayem used to be jailed for 30 years for fees together with complicity to terrorist homicide.
In 2023, a Belgian courtroom sentenced Krayem, amongst others, to existence in jail on fees of terrorist homicide in reference to 2016 suicide bombings that killed 32 folks and wounded masses at Brussels airport and a hectic metro station.
Krayem used to be aboard the commuter teach that used to be attacked, however he didn’t detonate the explosives he used to be wearing.
At its height, IS managed swathes of Iraq and Syria between 2014 and 2017 and used to be infamous for its brutality — a lot of it directed in opposition to fellow Sunni Muslims in addition to in opposition to the ones the gang deemed to be heretics.
In March 2019, the US-backed and Kurdish-led combatants of the Syrian Democratic Forces captured the ultimate sliver of land dominated via the IS staff within the jap Syrian the city of Baghouz.
While the gang has misplaced its hang on all the territory it as soon as managed, sleeper cells nonetheless degree occasional assaults in Iraq and Syria and in another country.
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