Portuguese “jihadists” sentenced to prison terms By Daisy Sampson, in News · 18-12-2020 01:00:00 · 0 Comments
Lisbon Criminal Court has sentenced Rómulo Costa and Cassimo Turé to prison terms of nine years and eight years and six months respectively, for crimes in support of terrorist organisations linked to Islamic radicalism.
Both defendants were convicted of supporting, assisting and collaborating with Islamic terrorism, “in apparent competition with the crime of financing terrorism”.
The court absolved them, however, of the crimes of membership and recruiting militants for terrorist organisations.
The judgment proved that Cassimo Turé and Rómulo Costa “were aware of the political-military situation experienced in Syria, while also being aware of the extremist political-religious conventions of
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Two men have been jailed in Portugal for supporting a jihadist recruitment network that delivered citizens from Britain and Portugal to Syria to fight for Daesh.
The Lisbon Criminal Court sentenced Rómulo Costa and Cassimo Turé to prison for nine years and eight and a half years respectively on Tuesday.
The court had ruled that it could not be proven the two had joined Daesh or intended to travel to Syria themselves.
Instead, they helped family members despite being well aware of their activities.
For example, Costa gave his passport to help his brother reach Syria, while Turé was with his brother when he was arrested at Gatwick Airport for terrorism.