Naim Cherni is definitely a propagandist for a Terrorist. The Federal court has confirmed conviction of the Board member of the Islamic Central Council of Switzerland (IZRS) to a conditional sentence of imprisonment of 20 months.

in Addition, the Salafist organization, according to the ducks two published today Judge threatens the two most well-known Expo a conviction for an advertisement for the terrorist organization al-Qaeda. The Federal court lifts previous acquittals for Nicolas Blancho and Qaasim Illi. So the President and the Media Director of the IZRS come again before the Federal criminal court.

Al-Qaeda is glorified

Naim Cherni, at that time in the Salafi Central Council is responsible for the "cultural production", was accompanied in 2015 in the Syrian civil war, the jihadi cleric Abdallah al-Muhaysini with the camera. From long Interviews he made two films that were shown at an event in Winterthur and uploaded to Youtube. Now the films are considered legally as Propaganda for the Syrian al-Qaida Arm, the Nusra Front.

Blancho and Illi were accused, because they had made advertising for the strip, the glorification of Terror. However, the Expo won a radical current of Islam in the summer of 2018 ducks a partial success, which caused a sensation: The Federal criminal court said filmmaker Cherni due to violation of the al-Qaida-ban on guilty – but Blancho and Illi achieved acquittals due to form errors of the office of the attorney General.

prosecutors had failed or declined to repeat in the indictment in Blancho and Illi the allegations in detail, a few pages have previously been carried out to Cherni. The Federal criminal court saw as a result, the prosecution principle will be breached, what is the Federal earned advocacy, criticism, or up to a "rookie mistake": to be Not even "Copy-and-paste" the people of Federal Prosecutor Michael Lauber capable of, was the Tenor.

Now, the Federal court, however, fully behind the prosecution. The Lausanne judge not only the complaint Chernis, but hot also those of the office of the attorney General good. "Copy-and-paste" consider it as an unnecessary and "excessive formalism" as the Federal prosecutors have outlined the allegations to the accused "meticulously". "The repetition would lead to a mere distension of the indictment," notes the Federal court.

Convicted with running back

The IZRS shares, he and Cherni tested in the European court of human rights. The Central Council criticized the dismissal of the complaint Chernis by "a SVP-heavy-encrusted criminal chamber". In fact, the three-member panel was composed of two judges of the right party. It was presided over, however, it is of a Green. No mention of the Central Council of the Federal criminal court only confirmed Chernis sentencing by Federal judges from the SP, the FDP and the CVP.

The now Convicted to come out of the Board of Directors of the Salafist organisation, such as the IZRS confirmed, because he "could no longer afford the time that would be needed to direct the for our Association so Central multimedia Department". The resignation Chernis have "nothing to do with the conviction to".

Created: 13.03.2020, 11:55 PM