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