On Thursday, Swedish prosecutors announced plans to indict a convicted Swedish man for his alleged involvement in the” Islamic State” ( IS ) militant group’s capture and execution of a Jordanian pilot in Syria. The suspect is accused of helping to push the aircraft into a steel cage prior to one of the jihadist group’s most notorious murders. What are the facts about the event? Osama K., a 32-year-old Swedish citizen, is suspected of helping in the implementation of a captured Jordanian captain while fighting for IS. The believe is being held in custody on suspicion of “aggravated war crimes and criminal acts committed in Syria,” according to the prosecution. According to the prosecution,” the research has shown that the man, armed and masked, together with others forced the aircraft into a copper cage.” The Islamic State had captured the captain of the Royal Jordanian Air Force after his flight was fallen near Raqqa, the de facto capital of IS’s self-declared” caliphate,” on December 24, 2014. The jihadist team published photos of the dying online. role in Brussels and Paris attacksK. allegedly joined ISIS in Syria in 2014, before eventually moving back to Europe, according to prosecutors. He was given a 30-year prison sentence in France in 2022 for allegedly conspiring to carry out the Paris problems in November 2015 that left 130 people dying. He was given a life sentence in Belgium in 2023 for his part in the 2016 Brussels problems, which resulted in the death of 32 individuals. On March 12, France consented to palm over K. to Sweden for nine weeks so that it could be investigated and tried. Afterwards, he will be sent back to France to continue serving his sentence. The Stockholm District Court’s trials are scheduled to begin on June 4.
