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Observer is likely Canadian lawyer Carl Campeau, who was abducted and escaped after 8 months
The Associated Press
Posted: Sep 21, 2017 1:30 AM ET
Last Updated: Sep 21, 2017 1:30 AM ET
A German court has convicted a Syrian refugee of being an accessory to a war crime against humanitarian operations over his participation in the 2013 kidnapping of a United Nations observer.
The Stuttgart state court Wednesday sentenced the defendant, who has been identified only as Suliman Al-S. in line with German privacy rules, to 3½ years in prison.
Prosecutors haven’t identified the observer but the facts released correspond with those of the kidnapping of Canadian lawyer Carl Campeau, who was abducted from a Damascus suburb. He escaped after eight months.
The court found the defendant backed the kidnapping and offered to serve as a guard, but didn’t find conclusive proof that the Nusra Front, al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria, was behind the kidnapping or that the defendant belonged to it.
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