One year after his arrest, torture doctor Alaa M. is tried before the Higher Regional Court of Frankurt.
Read the reporting of BILD with the details of the indictment bill:
It is about the most severe mental and physical cruelty: Alaa M. is said to have brutally tortured civilians as a doctor in three hospitals in Syria. According to the indictment, he is said to have set fire to male genitals and mistreated prisoners with medical devices.
Now the Federal Prosecutor's office has indicted the Syrian, who has practiced in Germany since 2015, in the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court - for crimes against humanity and serious and dangerous bodily harm.
According to the indictment, Alaa M. was up to mischief in hospitals in Homs and Damascus between April 2011 and the end of 2012, as well as in a military intelligence prison in Homs. His alleged victims: 18 prisoners - Alaa M. is said to have even killed one of them.