Iraqi court jails French, German Daesh members for life

An Iraqi court has sentenced a French man and a German woman to life in prison for their membership in the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, some seven months after Baghdad announced that the terror outfit lost all of its urban bastions in the war-ravaged Arab country.

According to rulings read out by Iraq’s Central Criminal Court in capital Baghdad on Monday, French citizen Lahcen Ammar Gueboudj, 55, and the German national, Nadia Rainer Hermann, 22, were found guilty of joining the terror group.

Judge Suhail Abdullah, however, added that the sentences could be appealed.

The Judicial sources said that the German citizen had already been sentenced to a year in prison for entering the Arab country illegally.

In Monday’s hearing, embassy staff and interpreters from both France and Germany were present.

Iraq is trying hundreds of suspected Daesh members, many of whom were detained as the outfit’s strongholds, such as Mosul, crumbled throughout Iraq. This includes hundreds of foreigners.

Back in early June, an Iraqi court sentenced Melina Boughedir, a French woman, to life in prison for her suspected membership in the Daesh terror group

SS