Last Thursday, 16 February, in Berlin, Germany, Palestinian Syrian militiaman Moafak D.’s defense gave their final statements and called for his acquittal. They argued their client had been injured and bedridden at the time of the crimes – an alibi that had not been mentioned until early this year, at the very end of the seven months long trial during which he faced accusations of war crimes.
In a German trial, the prosecution found Moafak D. (a former militiaman from Syria) guilty of war crimes committed in 2014 in the Palestinian refugees camp of Yarmouk (Damascus). For the plaintiffs in Berlin, this does not go far enough.