{"id":77980,"date":"2018-02-28T10:20:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T15:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77980"},"modified":"2018-02-28T10:20:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T15:20:32","slug":"germany-to-prosecute-refugee-for-us-soldiers-death-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77980","title":{"rendered":"Germany to prosecute refugee for US soldier’s death in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stars & Stripes<\/a> reports that Germany is planning to prosecute Abdol Moghadas S., an Afghan Taliban deserter for the death of Private First Class Christian Jacob \u201cJake\u201d Chandler resulting from an ambush in 2014. Abdol was a refugee living in Bavaria when he was arrested for the murder.<\/p>\n

Abdol has been charged under German law with \u201ccollaborated murder\u201d and \u201cattempted murder,\u201d among other crimes. The charges stem from a legal change that came after the 9\/11 attacks, which allows German authorities to prosecute a foreign combatant. The unprecedented case has lifted the hopes of a dead soldier\u2019s mother eager for justice while shattering the hopes of a refugee seeking a fresh start.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to S&S, Christian J. Chandler, 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, died April 28, 2014, in Logar province, Afghanistan, when enemy forces attacked his unit with small arms fire. Abdol was with those enemy forces when Chandler’s death occurred. <\/p>\n

In the early morning of Feb. 17, 2017, in the small Bavarian town of Schnaitsee, German special police forces arrested Abdol, who told authorities he had fled Afghanistan in fear after deserting the Taliban.<\/p>\n

Five months later, German federal prosecutors announced criminal charges against Abdol for his alleged role in two attacks on U.S. soldiers and Afghan government troops as a Taliban member.<\/p>\n

Abdol lived in a three-story refugee home in the town\u2019s center, reported the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, a national daily. He played volleyball at a local sports club and won trophies for kickboxing in the nearby town of Traunreut, the newspaper reported…Thomas Schmidinger, the mayor of Schnaitsee, told Stars and Stripes that he had not met Abdol. Schmidinger said he heard that Abdol did not try to hide his past: \u201cHe must have talked openly about the fact that he fled from the Taliban.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to S&S Abdol is charged with being an accomplice to murder and attempted murder in the 2014 ambush. Abdol revealed details of the attack in his asylum application last year. Prosecutors said that Abdol will be tried as a juvenile, so his trial won’t be public and he’s looking at a maximum sentence of ten years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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