JAKARTA - An Afghan citizen suspected of being Islamist was sentenced to life imprisonment by a German court for stabbing a policeman to death and injuring five others in an anti-Islamic demonstration last year.
The ruling comes amid heated debate over the deportation of criminals and asylum seekers who failed to return to Afghanistan, which heated up earlier this year after negotiations with the Taliban government were not officially recognized by Berlin.
The 26-year-old defendant, Sulaiman A, was found guilty of attacking people in a demonstration in the western German city of Mannheim, organized by the anti-Islamic group Pax Europa in late May 2024.
Sulaiman A attacked a speaker and several demonstrators at the event before stabbing a police officer who rushed to help.
The policeman later died of his injuries.
The attacker was detained pre-trial in June 2024 after leaving intensive care due to injuries suffered during his arrest.
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Reported by Reuters on Tuesday, September 16, although prosecutors said he sympathized with the Islamic State militant group, he was not tried on terrorism charges.
The court in Stuttgart expressed a special "heavy sense of guilt" in the case, meaning Sulaiman A would not qualify for parole.
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