Germany to prosecute refugee for US soldier’s death in Afghanistan
Stars & Stripes reports that Germany is planning to prosecute Abdol Moghadas S., an Afghan Taliban deserter for the death of Private First Class Christian Jacob “Jake” Chandler resulting from an ambush in 2014. Abdol was a refugee living in Bavaria when he was arrested for the murder.
Abdol has been charged under German law with “collaborated murder” and “attempted murder,” 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’s mother eager for justice while shattering the hopes of a refugee seeking a fresh start.
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.
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.
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.
Abdol lived in a three-story refugee home in the town’s 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: “He must have talked openly about the fact that he fled from the Taliban.”
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.
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The Stars and Stripes article is a must read. What I learned from it is that there is a woman named Rhonda Beazley, the Fallen soldier’s Mom, whom I admire and respect beyond words. I am sorry that this German legal action rekindles any sort of heartache for her.
Ten years max? Cocksucker oughta be hanged.
It is Mutti Merkel’s Germany. I’m honestly surprised that he got charged at all.
Saw someone’s assessment that Mutti Merkel is the second worst Chancellor Germany has had in the last 100 years.
I’m guessing No. 1 was a certain failed Austrian art student with bizarre proclivities and a missing testicle?
It’s not about justice, it’s about the appearance of justice. This guy they’ve charged admitted in writing to his role, denying that he ever shot at anyone in the ambush. He served himself up and Germany is displaying him for the useful idiot that he is.
Tried as a juvenile? YGBFSM!
Ten years for murder.
They dish out longer sentences for tax evasion, but hey, it’s Europe.
Don’t ever post anything anywhere calling his ancestry into question, Germany would probably demand you be extradited for hate speech.
Don’t they conduct health assessments at intake? Wouldn’t that verify that this is in fact a grown man? Or are they basing this off of current age and subtracting a couple to charge him for how old he was when he was at the time of the murder? Not kidding about genuinely interested in the decision making process. If they do find out he is a grown man will that sway the sentence? Or will they leave it due to the PC cult culture there? If someone could give a bit more insight it would be greatly appreciated.
I’ve seen quite a few photos and YouTube videos of anti-“refugee” rallies in Germany lately. A lot of them eschewed the modern German flag were waving the Kaiser’s colors instead. That has me wondering just how close they might be to an Old German response to all the New German hippie crap.
That sure as hell won’t be pretty to watch.
Cool.
So the only reason they caught him was that he mentioned it in his asylum application? Da Fuq?
So if he wasn’t a complete moron, he’d have been granted asylum and be dining on schnitzel for the rest of his life?
At der taxpayer’s expense.
Why isn’t he at The Hague being charged with war crimes?
Scumbag, hope he gets shanked in prison. RIP Christian Chandler.
If it had been a Russian he killed, he wouldn’t last long in Prison in Germany. Most of the hard-cases in German prisons are Russians convicted of murder or assault with intent to commit murder. The lesser crimes the Russians are in there for are extortion, organized sex trafficking and illegal weapons trafficking.
Somehow I don’t think there’s much love between Russians and Afghans, either.
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Poor lad, cry me a river.