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Wed, 24 Feb 2021 21:13 UTC A court in the northern German city of Celle has convicted a radical Islamist preacher and three co-defendants for recruiting and radicalizing young people in Germany for the Islamic State terrorist group.
He has been sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison.
The defense, however, demanded an acquittal, with Walaa himself declining to make a closing statement last week.
What did the court say?
The court pronounced Walaa guilty of supporting and being a member of the terrorist organization.
The judges said the Islamist preacher and his network radicalized young people mainly in the country s Ruhr region and the state of Lower Saxony and sent them to the IS combat zones.
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