Perpetrator 2011 Frankfurt Airport shooting



an improvised memorial victims, few days after attack. wut, trauer + warum? – anger, mourning + why?


arid uka, 21-year-old perpetrator, ethnic albanian born in kosovo had lived in germany since 1 year old; family had been living in country 4 decades. grandfather kosovo albanian imam, while parents , 2 brothers led secular lives. had been working @ airport post office.


in months before attack, uka undergoing late-adolescent crisis. uka left school before university-entrance diploma, didn t tell family. instead, told them had finished diploma successfully. family members, former friends, , 1 of employers described him introverted, polite, , not aggressive. months before shooting, uka broke ties friends , retreated. during time, extensively surfing web visiting websites salafi jihadist content. started dressing in salafist dress, , began study arabic.


uka decided join fighting in iraq or afghanistan, failed since failed establish right contacts. via internet, uka managed establish contact sheik abdellatif of so-called da wa group, preached in 2 mosques in frankfurt. salafi mosque of these 2 considered meeting-point radical islamists. several well-known islamists have been seen there. example of salafi lone wolf terrorism in europe, uka s sole contacts extremists online, never had direct personal contact , never involved in physical network.


according german authorities, uka confessed killings when interrogated after shooting.


uka s lawyer said motivation shooting video on youtube, showed soldiers raping iraqi muslim women. uka convinced video genuine, in fact clip taken redacted, american film based on mahmudiyah massacre. on internet, uka posted on several islamist forums, later claiming through content , discussions in these forums, came believe fellow muslims in global war united states. uka influenced jihadist nasheed.


trial , sentence

during uka s trial, defence lawyer described him non-typical violent criminal neither religiously motivated nor islamist terrorist, while attorney general of germany named uka single perpetrator, applied sentence of life imprisonment plus finding of exceptional gravity of guilt .


on 10 february 2012, hessian state superior court (oberlandesgericht frankfurt main) sentenced uka life imprisonment determination of exceptional gravity of guilt , means not eligible parole after having served fifteen years. because sentenced more 3 years imprisonment, deported kosovo after having served sentence since not hold german citizenship.








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