Finland remands in custody Iraqi ‘Daesh executioners’

An Iraqi twin have been remanded in custody at a court in Finland on the suspicion that they acted as executioners for the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group in Iraq back in 2014.

“The Tampere district court has remanded in custody, upon the National Bureau of Investigation’s (NBI) request, two men who are suspected of 11 murders with terrorist intent,” the NBI said in a statement after the hearing, which was held in Finland’s southern city of Tampere on Friday.

The NBI’s Chief Inspector Jari Raty said that a central piece of evidence used at the trial was a video purportedly showing the two men taking part in executions by Daesh in the north-central Iraq city of Tikrit last year.

“The nature of the crime is visible in the video... They (the suspects) were not hooded,” he said. “The victims were lying on the ground and they were shot one by one,” the official had told Finnish public broadcaster YLE earlier.

Daesh has been ravaging Iraq since June 2014. The victims slain in the video were among the 1,700 Iraqi military recruits whom the group captured and murdered in Tikrit last year.

The 23-year-olds had entered Finland in September and were arrested at a reception center for asylum seekers in the southwestern town of Forssa on Tuesday.

The brothers have pleaded not guilty. Raty has said that their court hearing is set to start “sometime in April.”

According to an estimate by Finland’s Security Police, around 300 people in the country are known to have connections to overseas “terrorist” groups.

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